#185 - Dr Benjamin Hardy - The Truth About Your Personality

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Dr Benjamin Hardy is an organisational psychologist and an author.

Do you believe that your personality is permanent? Innate & inbuilt? Dr Hardy disagrees.

Expect to learn why Myers-Briggs & other personality tests are destructive & as inaccurate as horoscopes, how to reframe your past narratives, why you can overcome traumas, how to become the scribe of your own identity narrative and much more...

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Check out Ben's website - https://benjaminhardy.com/

Daniel Gilbert's Ted Talk - https://youtu.be/XNbaR54Gpj4

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0:00.0	Oh, hello friends, welcome back.
0:02.7	My guest today is Dr Benjamin Hardy and we are talking about his new book, Personality
0:07.6	Isn't Permanent.
0:09.3	The clue is in the title, if you thought that your personality was an immutable characteristic
0:13.8	some innate, inbuilt, unchanging North Star that is going to guide you for the rest of
0:18.5	your life, you're about to get red-pilled out of existence over the next 50 minutes.
0:24.4	This conversation is really cool to tons of implications for how we view ourselves, our
0:28.4	own sense of identity, how we deal with past traumas, loads of other stuff.
0:32.9	Also if you're a fan of enigrams or Myers-Briggs or colour wheel personality tests, I've got
0:40.3	some bad news for you Ben reckons that they're mostly bollocks.
0:43.8	Anyway, enjoy that.
0:45.5	I also wanted to give a massive thank you to everyone who supported the launch of the
0:49.6	Modern Wisdom Ultimate Life Hacks list at the start of this week.
0:53.3	Like the most insane response I've ever had to putting something out.
0:57.1	So thank you to everyone who has gone and downloaded it.
1:00.0	It is still available for free if you haven't got your copy yet.
1:03.3	Just go to chriswalex.com slash life hacks and get your copy for free over 200 ways that
1:10.2	you can upgrade your life instantly.
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