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It's not as if you can choose not to imitate anybody. By default, you're imitating yourself. I've found imitating people other than myself to be a useful technique for generating ideas I wouldn't normally have thought of (which maybe I should have explicitly mentioned in the OP). What are your experiences with this technique?
By definition, either you trivially are imitating yourself or it is impossible to imitate yourself (if being yourself is mutually exclusive with imitating yourself).
If you imitate others, then by imitating others you are doing exactly what you do.