The subtle skill of selective imitation - #233

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Specific traits and habits that I find particularly admirable is the characteristics as like imitating them. Which means I want to apply something that I saw in other people, and these people can be my friends or any public figures or someone I respect a lot, but this imitation is fine as long as it鈥檚 done in a good manner or you can say that in a healthy way. However, I love to take the goodness of others and ignore all the bad things behind. I find it no necessary to imitate everyone's everything. I prefer to imitate the great and not those who are not worth it.

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Maybe I have social ability as like chameleon, When I am with my friends or some that I know, I don't know somehow I began to mimic that person鈥檚 accent speech or body language. I immediately start to speak with the same inflection, and people often ask me about my district because in Bangladesh different districts people speaks Bengali in a different accent.

Once I was playing with some friends from USA, and several days later, I would catch myself speaking with a american accent, which seems very odd coming from me. While writing I also adopt a voice, and read it in another voice tune. As if I'm roleplaying the characters.

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I also tend to pick up on mannerisms, and try to use it without being conscious about it. In my class I meet people from different type of districts, they have different faiths and backgrounds and so on, sometimes I like to modify my behaviour slightly and it depends on person to person. As I'm an ambivert, you can basically drop me in any group of people and I can easily fit in. I really try to admire people's goodness and follow them correctly.

My intuition always tells me about the appropriate behaviour in any situation. I will somehow find out the common ground. I think this ability of mine about observing others it helps people to feel more comfortable with me. Because I act and speak in a similar way to them.
As for an example, if you are a introvert, I will notice that and I will try to to be related to you in a quiet way. In that way you won't feel uncomfortable around me.

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But sometimes I do notice that I'm talking like my friends and even I was acting like them. I had this friend in school, she had mysophobia she used to wash her hands all day, I swear then I also started to wash my hands without any reasons and I didn't even realize it at first, but my parents noticed the difference in me and then my whole vibe shifted. It's was a weird experience as I didn't have mysophobia. I can say that sometimes even if you don't mean to do it sometimes it just happens.

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This usually happens if you start to absorb stuff from the people you are around all the time, and it's not a bad thing always, because sometimes it turns out to be a good habit, as I can learn new things, I think happens because of the wanting to fit in and just subconsciously copying what seems to work for others.

I believe that It's a human nature, so this eventually happens with everyone without them knowing it, but lastly I want to say that you should try to admire the good things and don't take the negativity of others.

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