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Sometimes you realise that you're emulating someone too much.
Just as any golfer can stand in balance and learn a proper body alignment from emulating someone like Tiger Woods, it can be done in skiing, too.
Rather than find my own tastes, my own pleasures, I tortured myself by slavishly emulating someone else's idea of a good time.
The two are of course very close for performers who empathize with all the characters in their songs and whose most conspicuous moments of self-parody occur when they're emulating someone whose musical style they'd like to master.
"I don't think that, as a creative person, you have that much to contribute when your life experiences are limited to those you have while you're emulating someone else," she explains.
It is worth noting that extraordinary achievements are never based on emulating someone else's achievements, but on some unmeasurable combination of (a) marching to one's own specific and unique drummer and (b) accidentally perhaps unconsciously doing something that captures the Zeitgeist in new and unexpected ways.
When we conceive of value in this way, we perceive there to be a reason for, say, admiring or emulating someone (McDowell 1979).
It's not a matter of simply emulating someone's style but of absorbing, through concentrated exposure, certain ideas about how you'd like to sound.
Try emulating someone who is very open.
Avoid emulating someone from reality TV, especially if their behavior contradicts your principles and morals.
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