Naturally, all of us want to be liked. By everyone. The problem is that this is typically an unattainable feat. However, after dealing with this myself and analyzing it, I have found the ways to surpass our usual limits and get the general population to love us no matter who they are.

1. Get everyone to trust you.

Even though high-quality loyalty can only be given to a handful of people, try to make everyone think they are in that handful. They’ll love you for it. People sure do value trust and loyalty. You know better than to actually trust them though.

Spread around all the juicy gossip. Oh, so Sally just told you something top secret? Tell Jane and Johnny too but tell them to keep it hush hush. They’ll think you trust them and will appreciate the info. Sally will feel like she can trust you and you will have formed a bond by sharing that secret. Just pray it doesn’t get back to Sally after your game of telephone.

2. Be fake AF.

Don’t disclose anything about yourself or say much at all until you figure out what kind of person you are dealing with. Then use that to determine how you will act in front of them. Say you’re at work… When you figure out your coworker is a hard-working, by the book-kind of employee, then you make sure that in front of them you enforce the regulations. When you find out someone is relaxed and would rather bend the rules… you laugh and joke in front of them. Oh, something didn’t get done? Lol who cares.

Compliment. Compliment. Compliment.

The trick to being fake is just finding out what everyone wants and giving to them. It’s important not to fake “extremes” because if one person makes note of you being a savage, and another an angel… they’ll figure out what you’re up to. It’s manipulative. It’s unethical. It makes you feel dirty. It’s very high risk… if you get caught in the middle of it you will probably be hated. If you are dedicated to everyone loving you though you’ll do it. Whether you notice it or not.

3. Stand for nothing.

Stand up for absolutely nothing. Don’t stand up for yourself either. If someone is mad or mean to you, just be completely apologetic. Who cares about your dignity? You put that to the side when you decided you had to be liked. You hear someone mocking your religion? You better ignore it. You see someone not doing their job? Ignore that too.

Do not call anyone out on their BS. Even when you see a close friend going down the wrong path, don’t tell them they need to turn around. No one wants to be corrected. People love to have their actions justified, so instead of calling them out, make them feel better. Say your friend picks up a smoking habit, instead of telling them they need to quit, tell them it’s really not a big deal. Smoking helps keep them calm, everyone has their stress relievers.

Do not make a strong stance on any subject. You are moderate all the way. Grey is your color and lukewarm is your temperature.

Hopefully you have noticed by now that I am being facetious. I do not recommend doing any of these things. My point is that it is impossible to be a good, genuine human being and liked by everyone.

While I am preaching this idea, let me make it clear that I am still learning to accept that not everyone will like you. Sometimes a lot of people won’t like you in a certain environment. It is hard to swallow. What has helped me is looking at it from this perspective: the way you do things will never line up 100% with everyone else. We all approach life differently. Serious people are annoyed with jokesters. Jokesters are bored by serious people. Those that are ethical are agitated by those that aren’t and vice versa. The list goes on.

If you are something, anything, then you will not be looked on as favorably by whoever is the opposite. Do you think Batman would be offended to find out the Joker didn't like him? It is to be expected. If you have people under you at work, don’t freak out when they don’t like you for making them do their job. If you have peers that party and you don’t, don’t feel bad if they seem to leave you out of plans. The opposite applies.

Do you. Don’t be offended when your antithesis is hatin’. It means you’re doing something right.