<p><em>&#8220;The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.&#8221; &#8211; Meryl Streep, American actress</em></p>
<p>You have the capability to improve your relationships, ramp up your ability to learn and increase the quality of your overall experience of life. </p>
<p>Does this sound like the beginning of a typical positive thinking &#8220;self-help&#8221; book?   </p>
<p>How about this: You have an ability that is so very close to mind-reading that when you understand and apply these strategies, you will absolutely open up new possibilities for your life. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2012/04/imitate-for-success-by-james-mapes/" title="Permanent Link: Imitate for Success By James Mapes" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1025,"date":"2012-04-23T12:35:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T17:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2012-07-17T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T16:43:45","slug":"imitate-for-success-by-james-mapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/04\/imitate-for-success-by-james-mapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Imitate for Success By James Mapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.&#8221;\u009d &#8211; Meryl Streep, American actress<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You have the capability to improve your relationships, ramp up your ability to learn and increase the quality of your overall experience of life. <\/p>\n<p>Does this sound like the beginning of a typical positive thinking &#8220;self-help&#8221;\u009d book?   <\/p>\n<p>How about this: You have an ability that is so very close to mind-reading that when you understand and apply these strategies, you will absolutely open up new possibilities for your life. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/04\/imitate-for-success-by-james-mapes\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Imitate for Success By James Mapes\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.&quot;\u009d - Meryl Streep, American actress You have the capability to improve your relationships, ramp up your ability to learn and increase the quality of your overall experience of life. 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