Beware people who refer to themselves in the 3rd person.
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Loading ...The only people I’ve heard of referring to themselves in the 3rd person are politicians. It’s an interesting habit.
1. If you’re not a politician and you do this, you will certainly be labelled pompus.
2. It probably indicates that you are more prone to be… manipulative? We see people with shifty eyes as dangerous and sneaky. We’re basicly programmed inherently to detect shifty eyes as someone who’s dangerous. Why? Because usually a person with shifty eyes doesn’t want you to notice that he’s looking at something, giving the clue to your subconscious that he’s trying to manipulate you, whether he knows it or not, by denying you the information that would otherwise be available that he was looking at something.
3. A person that refers to himself in the third person is thiking of how you perceive him. He’s looking at himself, while you’re looking at him, so that he can modify how he appears to you to get the best result he wants from you. A person that is so self absorbed and focused on himself that he actually sees the “him” he’s created as separate from himself so much to cease using the word “I”, is too busy trying to invent himself to “BE” himself. Hence, people that refer to themselves in the 3rd person (and aren’t mentally ill or challanged), should earn some of the same caution that people with shifty eyes earn. It’s abnormal behavior, and probably a lucky view into the mind of someone who got where they are by being quite manipulative.
To quote Richard Nixon who refer’s to himself here in the 3rd person: “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.” After he lost his run for govenor, and before he was elected president. Something to think about.
