The Importance Of Reputation

The way you represent your work and represent yourself is what makes up your success, but it starts with you.

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are. While your reputation is merely what others think you are.” -John Wooden.

“Life is a popularity contest. We want to work with people that make us feel good to be around them. Likeability is the tiebreaker to almost anything.” (Sanders, 2005). Being likeable is much more critical than confidence because people gravitate towards others who create a positive emotional response in them as it delivers psychological benefits. In other words, likability is the ability to produce a positive emotional experience in someone else, such as making co-workers feel good about themselves. Being likeable and having a positive demeanor is essential because if others like you, then that means that you have the ability to get along with others, which is a highly valued workplace skill and in addition, your colleagues will encourage and support you in the workplace. According to Sanders, in order to develop a likeable personality, it involves for you to be friendly, relevant, empathetic and authentic. Being disliked can disrupt the effectiveness of coworkers working together and can also isolate the customers. People would rather choose to work with someone who is less skilled and likeable than someone who is capable but isolates their coworkers. The outcome then comes to some companies having put on less emphasis on abilities and more on determining the employees’ likeability. The impression is that if someone is lacking a certain skill, they

Many people have similar character traits and some may have completely different character traits than others. The only thing that makes each of the traits we possess individually different from other people is how we present them to the world we live in. Despite the idea of what others may perceive of you in the time being, your personality and the character traits that you obtain is only best understood when you truly reveal it to others. Showing your true character all the time creates a great deal of sacrifice when it comes to disregarding all insecurities that are being present.

You cannot know who you are, and you never will. Some people think they know a lot about who they are, but that person is forever changing, that thing they are. Saying you know who you are can affect the way you act, because you try to be what you think is yourself, instead of the forever changing you. This can go on to affect you both mentally and relationally, both looping back and forth.

How much do we truly know about ourselves? Have you ever wondered how much you know about how others view you? This struck me with great interest, so I took a series of tests to see what personality I have, if I have a sleeping disorder, what level of self-esteem I have, and if I have borderline personality disorder. The test results seemed to be reading me like a book. The realities whether I want choose to accept it is the test results are amazingly accurate.

Unfortunately, it's true what they, "It's not about who you are, it's about who you know."

Abraham Lincoln once said, ”Reputation is the shadow. Character is the tree.” This quote means that reputation is what other people see on the outside but it’s not who you really are on the inside. In literature we see many examples of this such as the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” when Boo Radley is judged by the townsfolk.

hat you do at that moment may determine not only how much money the band goes home with that night, but also whether or not you, and the band, will be welcome back at that club or at other clubs in the region. So although it might seem like you are “getting away” with something by pocketing the extra $50, you are probably doing more long-term damage to your reputation than the money is worth.

Similarly, in smaller communities who is known or how many one knows indicates success. Reputation and status is prevalent on every scale of society and in history, how someone is known when they are not present dictates all possible misconceptions. This is seen biblically in the book of Ecclesiastes 7:1 where it reads “A good name is better than precious ointment, and day of death better than birth”. This quotation explains that one must work ten times as hard to produce a proper name than any material possession or luxury; this is most important in the sense that when one passes on only their reputation lives on. In addition, a famous statement from Abraham Lincoln: “Character is like a tree and reputation a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, but the tree is the real thing”. Lincoln makes the point that everything one does should be a reflection of character to produce a transparency between who one is viewed as by friends and family, and who they truly are. As one moves along in life, their reputation fluctuates, how their reputation results will assist in determining the success they exhibited in life.

unique and beautiful.”- Robert Tart. This is my favorite quote and also one of a precious lesson that I've learned through the book “A Wrinkle in Time.” In the book, the main character Meg was a girl that is different from her schoolmate, that is why she can't conform with everyone. It made her feels that she is a dumb and nerd although she is a smart girl. Other characters like Calvin,etc also have a different characteristics that they dislike. However, through the course of the book, Meg and other characters learned that differences is an advantage, their friends, family still love them loveable and endearing, and their differences make them act and think diversely from other people.

The only people that really know a person best are family and the people who work with that person every day. These people know the truth about what the person is really like behind closed doors.

President Abraham Lincoln once said, "Reputation is the shadow. Character is the tree." To many, this quote means that Character is like a tree which bears the shadow of their reputation whether it be good or bad.

Rumors, Reputation, and Respect are related because when rumors are spread it can lower the respect and sometimes ones reputation that people give to them. That person wouldn't get as much respect from the people around them. Sometimes the person who spread the rumor would also lose respect depending on how bad the rumor was. If they told someone who knew the rumor wasn't true then I'm sure that person wouldn't get much respect from the person they told. I believe respect is given to someone you know you can trust, but for someone who makes jokes and stuff about you then wants to be friends should have to EARN your

The image my parents may have thought me to be, at times, actually was not me. I wanted to be my parent’s princess and the golden child, so I acted in a way to seek their approval which in some ways was not the “real” me. These conditions occur because of the existence of self presentational rules according to Goffman. “When one individual enters the presence of others, he will want to discover the facts of the situation. Were he to possess this information.”Also when meeting an individual we try to get information about them so we can act accordingly to their approval. How we act with one friend may not be the way we act with another. We determine the person’s status and attitude and decide for ourselves if we want to be a part of that. When we gather the information when first meeting someone, it determines the way we think and act towards them.