Did you become like the persons you admired when you were 10-14 years old?

Somewhere in the psychology courses I took in high school or college, ages 10–14 were described as “The Modeling stage.”

The people you admired on television, in music, in our daily lives, maybe even teachers or other adults in our preteens and early-to-mid teens—we tend to become like them—either by intentionally emulating them or in very subtle ways we might not even be aware of.

As an adult, I’ve had people, even children, say I remind them of, or sound like, certain actors or musicians or characters whom I personally didn’t realize I had grown to emulate in subtle ways. Evidently it catches on, even if we don’t realize it. It is just about always people who I admired in this five year age bracket of age 10 to 14.

Is this true for you? Does your personality reflect subtle nuances of people you admired when you were 10–14 years old?