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"Not Minding Your Own Business"

Posted by Theresa Zagnoli: "By Bill Grimes

'You only have one chance to make a good first impression.'

What a curse! That's a lot of pressure to put on yourself. What's your reaction to someone obsessed with making a good first impression? They appear overeager, unnatural, even suspicious. However they come across - too chatty, too quiet, say "I" and "me" too often - is not likely to be the real person anyway.

If you're overly concerned about making a good first impression, you're putting the focus on yourself; kind of selfish when you think about it. You don't want people to walk away from a first encounter with you thinking, "He's really stuck on himself."

The advice usually inserted here about how to make a good first impression is, RELAX..."

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Source: Visual and (Non) Verbal Communication, 21 July 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on July 23, 2010 (boomark / email).