Advantages of Good Look

1. THE POWER OF GOOD LOOKS
By
S. Thilaganathan

2. GOOD LOOKING PEOPLE

3. GOOD LOOKING PEOPLE

4. World’s No # 1 Women in
Business
CEO and
Chairman
Hewlett
Packard

5. Nelson Mandela

6. CARL ROGERS
Psychologist

8. Part One
Introduction

9. Introduction
This topic is selected for two reasons
Reason # 1
This topic is important to all of us
Reason # 1
We can make big change in our life by
knowing this and doing some things for
this

10. People like one thing more
than anything
• It is not money
• It is not power
• It is not position
• It is one thing people like more than
anything
• That’s beauty

11. All like Beauty
All like beauty from
– Shopkeeper to Singer
– Young to old
– Poor to rich
– Without exception

12. Basic and Natural Need
• One of the basic and natural quality of
human mind is the love for beauty
– We like beautiful nature, sites and places
– We like beautiful children, husband/wife,
parents, staff
– We like beautiful things, dress, cars, furniture,
equipments etc

13. Importance of Beauty
• All are searching for beauty without
exception
• All of us are obsessed with beauty
• All wants to acquire beauty and perfection
• All want to be present
• We buy lot of products to enhance our
beauty

14. Worshiping Beauty
World is worshiping beauty
• Hollywood always worshipped beauty
• Television holds, an extraordinarily high
standard of physical attractiveness
• Physically attractive men and women
capture more attention
• Once they’ve got attention, they give is
given more credibility and

15. Appearance become more of a Factor in
the Livelihood/Work Place
• A woman’s livelihood depended almost
entirely on whom she married
• As long as men were choosing mates on
appearance, then a woman’s
attractiveness played an especially
heavy role in her destiny

16. Human Information Processing
What actually influences them?
• People often can’t identify the forces that
influence their behavior including their
feelings towards others.
• A Person’s physical attractiveness can be
flashed on a screen for a bare fraction of a
second.
• Almost instantaneously, we conjure up a
mental image of that persons’ character

17. IMPORTANCE OF GOOD LOOKS
Importance of Good Looks in
•Work Place
•Family Life
•Social Life
•Casual Encounters
•Personal Development

18. TALK OBJECTIVES
• The importance of Good Look
• The Advantages Good Looks
• The Disadvantages of Good Looks
• Characteristics of Good Looks
• How to improve our Look
• How to become attractive
• How to become happy and successful person
• To get better impression and instantaneous appreciation
• Conclusion

19. Talk Objectives
• (in day to day life)

20. Part Two
Advantages of Good
Looks

21. Attention, Attraction and
Attachment
•Beautiful people draw more
attention, attraction, admiration,
affections and attachment from
other people
•Get 5 As

22. Persuasion Power
• Attractive people have the persuasion
power to persuade other to do what
they wanted
• Good looking faces scored highest in
influencing others while the less
attractive people were seen to lack
influence
• Good looking people have unlimited
Persuasion Power

23. Get Best of Everything
• Good looking people get
– better job
– lovers
– happier relationship and
– even be able to have more children
– their life will be happier and successful

24. Preferential Treatment 1/2
• Beautiful or handsome people get
preferential and favourable treatment
• From infancy on, the treatment by
mothers, fathers, nurses and teachers
differs according to the level of
attractiveness

25. Preferential Treatment 2/2
• New born infants that are
independently judged to be attractive
tend to be held, cuddled and kissed
more than less attractive babies
• Teachers are prone to give attractive
children more information, better
evaluations, more opportunity to
perform and more instruction.

26. Marry Better Husbands
• Studies show attractive women tend to
marry men with better education and
incomes
• Attractive women have better choice
and selection
• Some get worse

27. Get Support
• Get support from Married and Social
Life
• Other people like to help Good Looking
People

28. Happy Relationship
•Attractive people get Happy
Relationship

29. Earn More Money
• Good looking people earn more than
average looking people
• Tall and good looking males have more
chance of getting managerial jobs

30. Earn More Money
• Being beautiful can get more salary
• The good looking ones earned about 5%
more than those with average looks

31. Employment Prospects
• They desire for more attractive people to
serve them
• Beauty affects job opportunities
• Even when appearance has no conceivable
relationship to a person’s functioning in a job
the hiring decisions of experienced personnel
consultants are significantly influenced by the
applicant’s physical appearance

32. Better Chance for Managerial
Jobs
• Good looks and height improve a man’s
chances of getting managerial jobs-we
associate leadership with tall, good-
looking men.

33. Better Impression and
Better Job
•Good look actually helped the
interview

34. Nice People
• Good Looking people and assumed as
nice people

35. Less Punishment
• Good looking criminals are treated less
harshly
• Specially woman are penalized must for
below average looks

36. People Get Mild Punishment
• Good Looking Criminals get mild
punishment
• They are often treated less harshly by injuries
• People assume that beautiful faces mean they
‘re honest and naïve
• At the start of the trial they can’t believe such
a nice looking person could act badly

37. Good Excuses
•Good looking people always
get excuses in day to day life in
the Office, family and social
relationship for their mistakes
and short comes

38. Attractive People are
Pampered
• Attractive children are pampered more
by adults even when they misbehave

39. Social Skills
• They have more chance to develop
social skills

40. Good Look and Success
•It is always found that good
look and success go hand in
hand

41. Babies Admire Beauty
• Even babies tend to stare longer at
pictures of beautiful young women

42. Part Three
Characteristics
and Benefits

43. Courage and Energy
•Attractive people get lot of
courage and energy

44. • Those who are talking with them also
get lost of courage and inspiration and
positive vibration
• They inspire and motivate others
Inspiration

45. Better People
• Society assumes that an attractive people are
is warm and responsive and sincere.
• They have more potential for social, marital
and occupational success
• Attractive individuals are believed to be more
sensitive, more kind, interesting, strong,
poised, sociable, outgoing and exciting.

46. More Productive
• People who are better looking may also
be more productive because if you
grow up attractive you’re more likely to
develop self confidence and social
skills.
• They are high achievers

47. Beautiful People are more Perfect
• Beautiful People are more Perfect in
much of the other areas
• Beautiful people make other things
beauty and do things beautifully and
perfectly
• They are more perfect in every aspect of
life

48. Attractive Women are more
Feminine
•Attractive women are seen as being
more feminine than unattractive
women

49. Beauty is Infectious
•Others may imitate, reproduce and
try to become beauty when they
associate with beautiful people

50. Good Behaviour
•We have been conditioned to expect
good behaviour and performance
from attractive persons
•And we may think we get it

51. Part Four
Disadvantages
of Good Look

52. Good Look Doesn’t Always
Guarantee Happiness
• A pretty face many smooth you path
through life, it doesn’t guarantee
emotional happiness.
• Physically beautiful people are not
always as happier/healthier

53. Glamour's People
• According to research findings good looking
people are often
– Snobbish
– Vatic
– Materialistic
– Likely to be more unfaithful
– They leave fewer frauds
– Pestered by admirers
– Rumors

54. Misuse/Manipulate
• Attractive people tend to misuse or
manipulate

55. Too Attractive May
Hamper/Their Career
•Being good-looking rather than
stunning, being too attractive can
actually hamper career
•Good looks may lead to
unflattering rumors
•Good looking people are get
affected by bad rumors

56. Capability Suspected
• Study showed that attractive managers
of both sexes are often judged as less
capable than their less attractive
colleagues.
• They were suspected they’d cruised up
the company ladder not because of hard
work, but because of their looks and
easy social charm.

57. Less Confidence
• People have less confidence in
attractive attractive people
• A confident boss will look for other
confident people
• Bosses who are really under confident
often hire yes-men and women.
• They may even hire less attractive
people as they feel they can dominate
them

58. Lonely
• They are lonely
• Cut off from the rest of the world

59. Problem of Protection
• Beautiful people have to protect
themselves from others
• This will give problem to parents,
husbands, family members and the
person concerned also

60. Beauty for Sales
• Beautiful people dragged into beauty
business, prostitutes

61. Part Five
Subjective

62. It is Subjective
• The transformation comes over when
we like or love someone
• Average people become charming after
falling in love
• Love is blind. When you look though
the eyes of love they automatically
become attractive

63. Context
• Beauty cannot be measured in lab.
• It is purely on how we look
• The appearance depends on the context
• We size up a lot more than their look

64. Liking and Look
• When you like someone they
automatically become attractive

65. Self Fulfilling
• Good looking people are treated well
• They feel good and become good
people they become self confident out
going and pleasant.

66. Chicken and Egg Logic
•Look film stars as unknown

67. Photo Experiment
1. Photo Experiment
– Man expected the beautiful woman to be
interesting even before the talk
– Vice Versa
2. Chat Experiment
– 60 years old
– Withdrawn

68. Context
• Non-supermodels shouldn’t give up hopes,
though.
• Beauty or attractiveness can’t be measured in
the psychology lab, or even purely on hw a
person looks.
• We look at a person, we size up a lot more
than their looks.
• The impact of a person’s appearance depends
on the context,

69. Self Presentation
• Where all things are equal and only a
person’s looks make a difference
• It appear that looks make a great deal of
difference to your life

70. Subjective
• Transformation comes over people we
love?
• Once you get to know his charming
personality and fall in love., he seems
more handsome

71. Love is Blind
• Basically, you’re ‘looking through the
eyes of love’ once you like someone,
they automatically become more
attractive to you

72. Attractiveness Cycle
• There’s a self fulfilling prophecy about
good looks
• If you’ve been treated well your whole
life because you’re pretty
• As a result You are going to be more
self-confident outgoing and pleasant
• And it might be these qualities, as much
as your looks, that draw people to you

73. Chicken and Egg Situation
1/2
• A chicken-and-egg logic also plays its
part.
• Just as we tend to think an attractive
person must also be successful
• They become more attractive in our
eyes
• If you meet stars as unknowns look like
skinny twits with big noses.

74. Chicken and Egg Situation
2/2
• But a few hits later and that thinness
transforms into edgy intensity, and we
decide their big noses give them
character

75. Experiments 1/3
• Researchers asked men to phone
several anonymous women, and give
them photographs of the women for
reference
• Some of the photos showed stunning
women, other were plain.
• What men didn’t know was that all the
photos were fake

76. Experiments 2/3
• Men expected the beautiful women to
be more interesting, even before they
picked up the phone.
• The plain ones were expected to be dull
and that’s how the men rated the
conversations afterwards
• When the researchers played tapes of
the talks back

77. Experiments 3/3
• The found the women who were
treated as beautiful got such positive
feed back they became more interesting.
• Those treated as plain quickly lost
confidence and acted withdrawn and
awkward.

78. Not just a Pretty Face
• Context
• Self Presentation
• Subjective
• Love is Blind

79. Part Six
Characteristics
Of Good Look

80. CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD
LOOKS
• Appearance
• Health, Personal Hygiene,
• Physical vigor, Energy
• Mental Energy,
• Inner Beauty,
• Emotional Stability,
• Care, Understanding, Social Skill
• Self confidence,
• Personal Value, Character,
• Achievement,
• Spirituality, Concern for Others

81. Physical Appearance
• Physical Attractiveness,
• Physical Perfection of Body,
• Appearance
• Personal Hygiene

82. Physical Attractions
•Perfection of Body
•Face

83. Face Beauty
• What makes face beautiful
• Most beautiful woman
– Have high check bone
– Large eyes (relative to the size of the face
than the average shape
• Thinner Jaw, Finer Jaw
• A shorter distance between the mouth
and chine and nose
• Forehead nose and mouth

84. Attractive Facial Features
Signatures
•Sexual Maturity
•Fertility
•Cuteness
•Expressiveness or cuteness

85. Attractive Men
•Have strong chin

86. Physical Appearance
•Clothes, Attire, Dress Code
– We tailored, well fitting suit will
make a good impression
– Freshly laundered spotless and
wrinkle-free every day
– Appropriateness, Physical
appearance can indicate Carefulness
of other areas

87. Physical Appearance Contd..
– Scarves, Ties, Belts, Jewellary, Glasses
(Eyeglass frames appropriate for
various face shapes)
– Follow popular guides published on
this subject.
– E.g. Dress for Success by T Molloy

88. Physical Appearance Contd
• You Are What You Wear by William
Thourby
– Colour
– Psychology of Colour
– Colour has a language of its own. Each
colour communicate moods, feeling and
emotions. Meet your colour consultants or
read books on colour
– Your complexion and colour

89. Personal Hygiene
•Body cleanness, teeth, fresh breath
are very important.
•Hair, finger nails should be clean

90. Strength and Physical Fitness,
Physical Vigor, Energy
• Physical fitness or lack of it affects your life.
• When your body is not fit and mind is not
alert.
• You prcrastinatinate instead of acting
decisively.
• When you look well you convey a maturity, a
confidence and a capability

91. Posture
• The strong nonverbal impact conveyed
by good posture should be sufficient
motivation for most people.
• One of the way of mental quality is
communicated is through your bodily
movement and posture.

92. Good Posture
• Good posture can work wonders. It
will
– Improve your figure, project your image
– Make you feel alert
– Make you healthier
– Allow you to work efficiently

93. Physical Poise
• Physical poise is smoothness and grace
of movement
• It is sitting down in a chair with a fluid
motion
• It is ascending and descending stairs
with ease
• It is reaching across a desk in an
unbroken movement

94. Poise
• One of the reward of physical fitness is poise –
meaning – balance, stability, dignity, charm and
spontaneity.
• Poise has two separate meaning
» Physical Poise
» Mental Poise

95. Mental Poise
•Mental Poise is the confident of
knowing you are the best you can
be. When you know you look good
you become more outgoing.
•Mental poise is the assurance of
looking and feeling good.

96. Physical Appearance
• Clothes, Attire, Dress
• We tailored, well fitting suit will make a
good impression
– Freshly laundered spotless and wrinkle-
free every day
– Appropriateness,
• Physical appearance can indicate
Carefulness of other areas

97. Health and Energy
• Strength,
• Health,
• Physical vigor,
• Energy

98. Mental Power
• Mental Energy,
• Power,
• Intelligence,

99. Inner Power
• Inner Beauty,
• Inner Power,
• Warmth,
• Balance,
• Stability

100. Emotional Fitness
• Emotional Stability,

101. Social Fitness
• Relationship
• Care
• Understanding,
• Social Skill

102. Self Confidence
• Self confidence,
• Self Esteem,
• Assertiveness

103. Personal Values and Principles
• Personal Value,
• Character,
• Personal qualities

104. Achievements
• Capabilities,
• Achievement,
• Performance

105. Spirituality
• Spirituality,
• Concern for Others,
• Be yourself,
• Be Natural

106. Beauty not just a Pretty Face
• Non-super models should not give up hopes
• Beauty depends on how you feel about
yourself.
• It makes a personal style and beauty
• Beauty is a question of using your natural
assets
• It is your personality
• If you feel good you look good
• All models are doing that

107. Final Note
• You don’t have to be naturally
beautiful, but you can make the most of
your self and be strong, confident and
interesting

108. Part Seven
How to Become More
Attractive

109. HOW TO BECOME MORE
ATTRACTIVE..(1/3)
Take care of following Five Areas of
Wellness:-
1. Physical:
2. Mental:
3. Emotional:
4. Social :
5. Spiritual:

110. Physical
1. Healthy food,
2. healthy habits,
3. healthy life style,
4. Body care ,
5. exercise,
6. relaxation

111. MENTAL
• Improve your mental skills,
• memory,
• Concentration,
• knowledge,
• language

112. EMOTIONAL
• Develop & express positive emotion
appropriately,
• minimize negative emotion

113. SOCIAL
• Love,
• concern,
• Care for others,
• Enjoying in giving and receiving love

114. SPRITUAL
• Love for God,
• Nature and Environment

115. HOW TO BECOME MORE
ATTRACTIVE..(2/3)
Eight Self-Development areas for Good
Looks
1. Knowledge
2. Attitudes
3. Money
4. Skills
Habits
Values
Growth
Presentation

116. HOW TO BECOME MORE
ATTRACTIVE
• Knowledge
• Education
• Career advancement,
• Growth
• Integration of knowledge
• Work

117. Developing Healthy
Attitudes
• Developing positive attitudes
• Self confidence

118. Earn and Acquire Wealth
• Improving financial strength stability,
• Earnings
• Savings
• Wealth

119. Developing Skills
• Developing skills - social,
• Communication,
• Listening,
• Computing

120. Learn Successful Habits
• Learning successful habits
• Your dress
• Mannerism
• Style
• Voice

121. Follow a Value System
• Developing life principles
• Values and goals

122. Continuous Improvement
• Continuous improvement in achievement
• Performance in life

123. Presenting Yourself
• Improving Your dress, mannerism, style,
voice
• Repetition ???????????????

124. Part Four
Presenting
Yourself

125. Personal Presentation
• 95% of executives and personnel
directors agreed personal presentation
was important
• You must have an edge to get a good
job

126. How to Present Yourself
• Men expected the beautiful women to
be more interesting, even before they
picked up the phone.
• The plain ones were expected to be dull
and that’s how the men rated the
conversations afterwards
• When the researchers played tapes of
the talks back

127. How to Present Yourself
• When it comes to success (in work and
love), how you present yourself is
important than having model looks
• Grooming is a vital part of this
• Dressing to suit your figure and
choosing a great hairstyle shows you
value yourself and expect others to well

128. First Impression 1/2
• The importance of first impressions and
one-time interactions between people is
increasing
• More frequently interact with strangers,
we more often judge others and are
judged ourselves on the basis of first
impressions that never get a chance to
be corrected

129. First Impression 1/2
• One these impressions are made, they
are very difficult to overcome
• Even if interaction continues, initial
impressions set the course for what
happens later

130. Society is like a Mirror
• When it comes to attractiveness and
success, society is like a mirror-it
reflects the image you put out.
• So if you see yourself(and present
yourself) as attractive, witty, sexy and
successful, so will the reset of the world

131. Enhancing Beauty
• Customers and other devices to
enhance our appearances
• News announcers and hosts are chosen
on the basis of their physical
appearances
• When they pan the football crowd or
the studio audience the camera stops
and focuses on an attractive person

132. Self Presentation
• Manner
• Dress
• Mannerism
– Polite Manners, courtesy – being aware of
other person’s feeling
• Style
• Voice

133. Final Note
• You don’t have to be naturally
beautiful, but you can make the most of
your self and be strong, confident and
interesting

134. CONCLUSION 1/3
• Good look is not physical attraction
/perfection alone
• The greater impact of beauty depends
on inside beauty
• It is subjective ; all are beautiful in
someway
• It is a gift from God can be enhanced
if not maintained

135. CONCLUSION 2/3
• You can earn and learn to become beautiful
• Age is immaterial.Growth and development
with age enhance beauty
• If you work you will get it - Many of us are not
working for it.
• Successful people are good looking
people.Good looking people are successful
people (circular effect)
• Maturity and experience enhance beauty and
sexual attraction

136. CONCLUSION 3/3
•You don’t have to be born
beautiful but you can make
yourself attractive , stronger and
happier by caring and looking
after yourself
•Good Appearance is vital for
Successful and Happy life.

137. SUMMARY OF TOPICS
COVERED
• Introduction and Objectives
• The Advantages Good Looks
• The Disadvantages of Good Looks
• Characteristics of Good Looks
• How to improve our Look
• Conclusion

138. QUESTION TIME