If you often imitate a person, will you become that person?

Imitating a person often won't make you that person, but you will learn something about him and become like him in some places. It's normal to imitate others' psychology, but realize that imitating a person can't be him. Excessive imitation will make you lose yourself and become nondescript.

Psychologists have said that all human behaviors are either imitation or transcendence. All human behavior comes from the original imitation. From birth to death, all our behaviors come from imitation and gradually form our own behavior habits. Imitation itself is an inevitable way of learning and progress. As long as we can listen, speak, see and think, imitation is everywhere.

I have a friend K. I chatted with a friend the other day. When I was poor in words, a sentence that another friend had said before suddenly popped up. She suddenly found that she had turned the habits and pet phrases of her former friends, colleagues and classmates into her own, and she seemed to have become a collection of all the people she knew. She felt that she would soon lose herself.

K's imitation is a means to make her feel safe in social activities and avoid the harm caused by criticism and frustration. Her imitation can also be understood as a way to escape what others think is not good enough. The reason for K's imitation is more "if I make a mistake when imitating a friend, it's not my fault, not that I'm not good enough, but that the friend I imitated is not good enough."

But we can't always avoid other people's evaluation, we need to look at other people's evaluation objectively. An objective evaluation of others helps to correct our imperfections, and an objective evaluation of others may also push us to the abyss. Therefore, listen to other people's objective evaluation and screen out non-objective evaluation. In these personal behaviors of aesthetics and speech, we should boldly show our own style and not be influenced by others.

Aristotle, the master of philosophy, said: if you don't imitate, you will fall behind; Moderate imitation makes us progress; Excessive, easy to lose yourself. There is nothing wrong with imitation itself. As long as we don't regard imitation as a means of escape and a "roadblock" to prevent our innovation, we should imitate appropriately and learn from the advantages of others.