Kinda Like Us

 

  Psychologists have found an interesting trick to make people like you. Act like them.

  Not acting like the psychologist, (unless you want them to like you) but the person whom you’re trying to win affection from. The process is called mirroring. It is reflecting the manner of speech and movement of another while speaking to them. It works because it is subconsciously triggered that the person is like we are and therefore worthy of consideration.

  It reminds me of Paul’s words in Titus 3:2-3, “...showing every consideration for all men. For we also once were foolish ourselves…” It can be hard to not speak against those whom we see behaving in ill manners. It’s easy to bash the foolish government or the young and dumb when they are just a faceless entity. But when we think of them as a person and more so a person not wholly that different than what we were at one time, it becomes more difficult to hate. We give ourselves a lot more rope than we tend to give to others.

 So next time you find yourself not liking someone, try to remember they are a lot like you in many ways. Even in their worst ways, you might remember that you have done yourself at one time or another.

 If we see a little of ourselves in others, we might see a little more to like.