Comments on: Imitation is the Highest Form of Flattery

By: Sandro

Sandro — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:03:31 +0000

Mirror neurons

By: emiliano

emiliano — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:34:18 +0000

After reading the blog by few months I have learned quite a lot of curious things about human behaviour, and this last about “mimic” is very interesting, odd and in some ways dangerous because if you are trying to pick up some one you may mimic for a certain time that person but afterward you’ll return to be as you really are, and all the magic will disappear quite soon. So I think is better to be as natural as we are all the time, so we’ll haven’t any surprises in future.
It should be different if we are trying to pick up a woman or a man just for a weekend, a night, or a brief time only. Just for pleasure as we are seing so frecuently in movies, comedies or tv. farse serials, this is not my case but it should be useful to other friends life.
To flatter someone you like is different, more if it is true, because we all need that friends or the person we love says good things about us if we are doing a good work. But it has to be a sincere flattering otherwise should be obviously a bad thing.
We all have seen flattering people at work traing to get boss favour at the expense of the other workers. This is a repulsive behaviour, I hate it whenever I have seen it, very often I have to say.
Thank you Jeff as ever (I’m flattering you) this is a very funny thing to talk about.

By: Joselin

Joselin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:25:52 +0000

Your guess is wrong, Jose Luis Cerezo.

To rehire is to reemploy or to reaccept someone back as a worker. So maybe you need some advise with your English dictionaries

Saludos

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:34:58 +0000

oh! that is really interesting. Thanks Jeff for picking this amazing topic.

By: Luke Z.

Luke Z. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:09:44 +0000

Oh, my god, this is actually right. Special thanks to Jeff that I will going to imitate…

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:32:27 +0000

Hi Jeff,
nice topic you brought up today.
In addition to what you have mentioned above, I even want to go one step forward and say that ‘acclaiming’ girls (just for few cases, of course!!!, I’m teasing you girls, don’t take it personally) is a good trick to attract them toward yourself. It worked out for me at least. Emmotionally and/or psycologically they like to be acclaimed. Girls are the best, prettiest, kindest, most faithfullest creatures that the Almighty has created. I have one of them.

Cheers!
Sam

By: ESLPodcast Google Group

ESLPodcast Google Group — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:17:02 +0000

Cool, Jeff, I had listened about it onetime. But, be careful you can bored with a person mimicking you every day when you are in front the mirror… LOL

By: jose luis cerezo

jose luis cerezo — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:28:42 +0000

Dear Jeff, I don´t find de word rehired in any dictionary.It´s a true word ?
I understand the context of the phrase, I think that he´s fired of his job

By: Valeriy

Valeriy — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:07:34 +0000

It was very interesting to read this, as we all know pretty well that psychology is a quite strong thing. There are people using the knowledge for reaching their goals, which can be both good and bad, and we don’t even guess that they do that! Such education is just necessary for morden people otherwise we can be fooled frequently. I myself have more than one book in my home library on the topic and must confess it’s really a thrilling reading that reveals many secrets of our own behavior. Gestures, words said mechanically we see and hear every day wherever we are, and we actually think little about that. Writers use the knowledge to make their novels more vivid and interesting to read. There are painters like, say, Schielle (1890-1918) who used gestures very often to express ideas, which can’t be done by means of other methods but gestures.
It’s really a too wide area to discuss and a decent book on the theme would be a good helper for everyone.