Should You Trust Your First Impression?

B2 – Upper Intermediate

There is this saying that “First impressions are lasting impressions”. You never get a second chance to make a good first impression. Positive first impressions can lead to a good relationship with people especially in business and negative first impressions can set in stone for an entire relationship and leads to lesser opportunities. That is why people try to put their best foot forward as much as possible during first encounters because most of us want to be liked.

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Discussion Questions:

1. Are your first impressions of people long-lasting or do you believe in second chances?
2. What are examples of first positive impressions that you know? How about negative impressions?
3. Have you met anyone who had a first bad impression to you? How was your second encounter?
4. How about meeting someone who had a first bad impression of you? Did you try to change it?
5. Is it hard to change people’s impressions especially if it is negative? How do you cope with that?