Sandberg's Experiment: Describe The Heidi And Howard Experiment

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Note: It is not that I like to be liked by others; it does not matter. I have to be satisfied with myself. Consequently, people cannot live and act just to please others. I would like to accomplish my aims, and of course, I would like to be a successful person.

1. Describe the Heidi and Howard experiment. What does it show about gender? Why is it significant? Heidi and Howard experiment is a study realized to a group of students, where all of them have to read a story about the successful trajectory of an individual in the business field. To start with the process, the group has to be divided in two. Then, the first half of the students have to read the story about Howard. Unlike them, the other half of the students have to read about Heidi. …show more content…

Sandberg discusses likeability and success at work and at school as being mutually exclusive for women. If you’re a woman, have you been unpopular because you won at sports, excelled in the classroom or were successful at work? Do you know anyone for whom this has been the case? If you are a man, have these qualities affected your likeability negatively or positively?
I did not win anything, so I am not a popular person. I do not know someone directly, but I know women who won Olympic medals, and they are not popular anymore. On the contrary, some men, who won, are still popular; for example, we can see them on TV shows such as the special guest or working like commentators. I am a woman, but I know that man can be easily popular on school or work for any contribution like being in the football team, even if they never win. For many men, having a quality is a positive …show more content…

To have a solution to this misunderstood, women have to break this parameter; we have to think more in ourselves.

6. Is it possible for women to achieve both “success and likeability? What is the suggestion at the end of the chapter? How do you feel about that suggestion?
Of course, there is a possibility to achieve success and likeability. Most of the women have one of these characteristics, and many of them have both. However, those women do not make public their success. We have to be more confident and be more open to the public. People have to know who we are and what we are doing. Women have to break their own glass ceiling then we can see our success and likeability.

Freewrite again on being liked.

Being liked is not a requirement, but it is a necessity for some individuals. We do not have to be liked for many people just for a few. The love and comprehension of our lovely family and friends are the base and support to continue our daily life. Create a dream and work for it until get it done is the motivation that everyone needs. Put together all the beauty moments on our life could be the motor to follow our dreams. Being liked comes by itself, we do not have to look too much to obtain it. Start from being liked for yourself , then you will be liked for

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