Anna Kendrick has been in six movies in 2016. She sings eight songs on the soundtrack to the movie Trolls, which she also voice-stars in. She just released her first book, a memoir called Scrappy Little Nobody. Anna Kendrick is the song you haven’t been able to get out of your head for the past nine months. Her name is the first thing in your brain in the morning and the last thing you think at night. When it’s the first of the month, instead of waking up and saying “bullfrog,” say Anna Kendrick. She’s an inescapable force.

According to the J-Law principle — which holds that the more overexposed you become, the less “relatable” you seem — Kendrick should be in the full backlash phase by now. But somehow, Kendrick is still among the small group of constantly likable celebrities — see also: the Rock and his spiritual son, Zac Efron; Chance the Rapper; and Martha Stewart — in 2016. How does she do it? How does she manage to be everywhere, all the time, and still manage to get an “Anna Kendrick? Yeah I like her, sure!” award? Some early theories: Her hair is clean, and so are her nails. She seems polite; her movies are nice to watch on cable. She has a nose that says, “I’m relatable, but I’m also sort of bitchy.” But Scrappy Little Nobody holds the real keys; it’s an unvarnished look at what it takes to write several hundred pages about yourself and still not be hated. Here are the 12 key steps to cracking the 2016 celebrity likability code, as discovered by Anna Kendrick. Read on.