365: Benjamin Hardy | How to Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs
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Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin Hardy (@BenjaminPHardy) is an organizational psychologist and author of Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success and Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story.
What We Discuss with Benjamin Hardy:- Why treating the results of a "scientific" personality test like Myers & Briggs or Enneagram as gospel is akin to trusting horoscopes to safely guide your life decisions -- inaccurate and potentially dangerous.
- Hear the story about how Benjamin and his wife almost didn't get married because a personality test indicated they weren't an ideal match.
- What looking back at the person you were 10 or 20 years ago should reveal about personality as an unfixed, malleable quality.
- Why categorizing yourself or accepting labels leads to a tunnel vision of mindlessness that tends to accentuate the negative qualities you believe yourself to have.
- You're always a work in progress -- you're never "finished." The person you'll be in 10 years may well be as different as you are from the person you were 10 years ago. So who do you want the future you to be?
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | imagination and flexibility are required for learning. |
| 0:02.5 | And so most people, if they've adapted to a label, |
| 0:06.2 | they almost lose interest in trying the other thing |
| 0:09.3 | because of the fixed mindset. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:16.7 | On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, |
| 0:18.9 | secrets and skills of the world's most brilliant people, |
| 0:21.7 | and turn their wisdom into practical advice |
| 0:23.8 | that you can use to impact your own life |
| 0:26.0 | and those around you. |
| 0:27.2 | We want to help you see the matrix |
| 0:28.8 | when it comes to how these amazing people think and behave. |
| 0:31.7 | We want you to become a better thinker. |
| 0:34.0 | If you're new to the show, we've got episodes with spies |
| 0:36.4 | and CEOs, athletes and authors, thinkers and performers, |
| 0:39.8 | as well as toolboxes for skills like negotiation, |
| 0:42.8 | body language, persuasion and more. |
| 0:44.6 | So if you're smart and you like to learn and improve, |
| 0:47.4 | you're going to be right at home here with us. |
| 0:49.2 | Today, psychologist and friend of the show, |
| 0:51.2 | Dr. Ben Hardy, rejoins us here. |
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