don't copy people

We can learn from others. Then, we can take what we learned and it apply it our own life. The trick is that you have to apply those lessons based upon your own personality, style, and concept of self. It is not just taking what others have to say I am going to be exactly like that person. You can be inspired by models to want to look pretty and stylish, but you have to define your own sense of style that will make you look and feel beautiful inside and out.

Actually, yes, we are animals. lol

But surely there's some merit to the current system of taxonomic rankings in biology, even if one doesn't agree with Darwin's theory of evolution... after all, it's an irrefutable fact that humans aren't plants!   :)

Lamb stay as you are! There could never be an imposter as we would recognise him immediately!

It is cheaper to put down paving stones rather than lawn. Then even a chair. Nothing needs any maintanance then, except a fan when the sun gets too hot

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, it might not hurt to toss a bit of fertilizer on yours and water it a bit more. Keeping up a nice lawn requires regular maintenance, after all... we can't expect our grass to grow well if we don't put forth at least a little effort to help it!

I think that if you are unhappy with the person that you are it is your job to make the changes in your life that will allow you to like yourself. I think this is very much need to help you to feel good about yourself. It could be something as simple as learning self defense so that others will not bully you. What ever it is you owe it to yourself to develop skills that will help you to feel confident and will lessen your feelings of vulnerability.

maybe learn how to built your self esteem. so, you will feel more confident to face crowrd

huhu, yes, when u have been bullied maybe the feeling u to become other people is more compare to other. but, as u try to be other, some day u will realize it, there is no good trying to be others

Mavic, that is wonderful. Many think thatI am to blunt with the truth. I am not the type to tell people what they want to hear. I have never quite learned the art of playing politics. I am who I am. Yet, that sometimes causes me trouble in life. Some tell me that I should learn to just get along to make life easier. Then, I do not feel like I am being true to myself. I have learned how to be a tad more diplomatic but that this the best that I can do. I strive for high quality, and that upsets others when I do more than the basic requirement. I have learned the issue is not that I make it harder on myself it is that I make it harder for others to do less. That is why they get upset with me for setting the bar higher. It really upset me once when I did a really good job at something. I got told that I did a great job. Then, some of my coworkers where all annoyed with me because they had to rise to the occassion to do more.

oh, i really hate to hear when people just said about the bad, but always i take it and try to improve my self. it just maybe i'm not so good, trying to be better as to satisfies myself, indirectly to them too

While I agree, I do believe that we all modify our behavior slightly to seem more like thos that we are around. It is not that we stop being ourself, yet we strive to show more of our personality that is congruent with the others around us.

ermm, i understand what u mean, yes, when i was teenager , i also admired famous people so that i what to be exactly like them. but, as i'm getting older, i understand that i cannot fully be like them, maybe just take few goods from them as a lesson for me to be better

ung, I do not recall it from my psychology classes and my undergraduate degree is in Behavior Science. Well, I can definitely quickly rule out that it was not Freud. I got so tired of reading in the introduction in every psychology book for every class the introduction that of course talked about the beginning of psychology with Frued. By the time, I graduated this was one psychologist name that I no longer wanted to hear. Truthfully, I am not a huge fan of his theories either. I have observed that children learn by copying others. As a teacher, the number one complaint that you will hear from young children is s/he is copying me. I came up with the standard answer of explaining to children that the other child is doing this because they like you. It seemed to be the one response that would defuse the situation. Truthfully, if you really think about the root of the behavior, it all comes down to the fact that if we did not like something about the other person we would not copy them. The best part is that it helps children to cope with why others are copying them rather than them feeling annoyed and defensive when they see others doing it. I do think that there must be some origin of this to psychology. I would say mostly that it probably rooted in Learning and Cognition Theories. It is more like I have integrated the knowledge and can apply it, but truthfully have not categorized and sorted it into which psychologist was responsible for the theory.

its make me dizzy to think on the psychologist theory. sometime i just mixed the up, confused who is talking about this, who is talking about that.. hahaha... lucky that was only my minor, at least i learn few about human psychology

oh, i think i have learn about it when i take psychology. hahaha... kids learn by copy what they see. that how they learn how to survive. ermm, but i cannot remember in which theory about it, i just take as my minor few year ago. hehehe... is not that we cannot copy other, even we copy other there will be something that show that is our not other people

what kind of friend u have? huhu. lucky that she sit on your ex. if your husband. its look she try hard to be like u, maybe she have something that make she want to be like u. maybe u can try to talk with her, maybe she got problem

that great u teach them i like that, every each your kids will have unique identity and different between each other. so that can learn differently about other

yes, everyone try to be others, when the other is better than them. its good that u have friend that accept u the way u are

oh, thanks. yes, as u trying to be other, someday u will now what u good at. at that time u will make the right decision which is better for u. it normal, when we are think to be other

even it hard to be ourselves, just be the best as u can, don't let other people compare u because u are same like others

haha, yet everyone has their own opinion about yourself. look like they never compare u to other or tell u being like other. its good we have someone to admired of, but just not trying hard to be like them completely

yes. i agree

yes, just take to improve yourself not fully transform to be others

oh, yes, always think positive even not in good environment