327: Why Your Personality Isn't Permanent with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

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Hal Elrod

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🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever taken a personality assessment? You know, the Myers-Briggs, DISC, or Enneagram tests that are supposed to tell us about who we are and fit us neatly into a predetermined category?

Well, today's guest, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, has a very different take on personality testing. In his new book, Personality Isn't Permanent, he explores why these tests go against science and psychology, shape your identity in dangerous ways, and prevent us from living up to our true potential.

Today, Dr. Hardy joins the podcast to talk about the danger of accepting labels from others, why it's time to do away with outdated personality tests, and how to stop living in the past and set a foundation for a hopeful future.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.5	I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves, and we ask them to give you a
0:24.0	peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same.
0:28.0	Ready, here we go. Goal achievers, members of the Miracle Morning community. Hey, it's Hal Elrod.
0:42.0	Welcome to this week's episode. Today I'm talking with my good friend
0:45.8	Dr. Benjamin Hardy. And in case you don't know, Ben, this is the second time on the show.
0:50.9	He was on episode 216 a while back and Ben is an organizational psychologist and
0:57.5	best-selling author of the book Will Power doesn't work and Ben's blogs have been read by over get this 100 million people and
1:08.2	his blogs are featured on Forbes FortuneBC, many other platforms.
1:14.0	He's a regular contributor to Inc and Psychology today.
1:17.5	And from 2015 to 2018, he was the number one writer in the world on medium.com and personally he and his wife
1:27.3	Lauren adopted three children through the foster system in February 2018 and then get this one month later after adopting three children
1:36.4	Lauren his wife became pregnant with twins who were born in December of 2018 and the whole Hardy family they all live in Orlando and
1:45.5	Ben is here today to talk about his new book personality isn't permanent which
1:50.6	debunks the pervasive myths about personality that have captured pop culture that most of us buy into.
1:57.0	For example, Dr. Hardy proclaims that personality tests like Myers-Briggs and
2:02.0	Eniagram are not only psychologically destructive, but are no more scientific
2:07.7	than horoscopes. Now personality isn't permanent provides science-based strategies for reframing past memories,
2:15.0	becoming the scribe of your identity narrative, upgrading your subconscious,
2:20.0	and redesigning your environment. And Ben is one of the most intelligent
2:25.4	brilliant not to mention heart-centered people that I know today's conversation I had a
2:30.1	lot of fun with this I learned a lot from Ben we really went back and forth quite a bit. He's very
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