430: Is Personality Permanent with Benjamin Hardy

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🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Is Personality Permanent?
with Benjamin Hardy

Have you ever taken an online personality test? Myers-Briggs, Kolbe or the “Big 5”? If you have, you no-doubt read the results with both pleasure and unease. Am I really a pushover? Am I more neurotic than most? It’s true past behavior is probably the best predictor of your future self - but it doesn’t have to be.

The guest psychologist on this week’s show dispels the myth that personality is fixed and unchangeable, and suggests strategies for creating a new future for who you are, personality-wise, that is not bound by the past.

Listen & Learn:

Why proception, the ability to dream and plan for the future, even future emotional states, is a huge part of what makes us uniquely human
How to measure the gain (not the gap) from who you were and who you are
How to look for past evidence of who you’d like to be not evidence of the smaller you
The importance of a growth vs fixed mindset

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ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist and author of Willpower Doesn't Work and Personality Isn't Permanent. He has been featured on Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Cheddar, and Big Think.

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0:00.0	I'm sure at some point online you have come across a personality test or an introvert
0:08.6	extrovert test or a test to find out what the ideal city in the world is for you to live in.
0:14.0	Some of these tests are just silly click bait, articles designed to get you to show up on a
0:18.1	website and eventually click on some ads. Some of them are based in real
0:21.0	psychological studies.
0:22.8	The truth is, it kind of doesn't matter who designed the test.
0:25.9	One of the best things to do is to be asked good questions.
0:29.9	When was the last time somebody who you care about sat down and said hey Lucas how
0:34.7	are you feeling about your job in terms of satisfaction how are you feeling about
0:38.4	your relationship the place where you're living Barcelona how is that in terms of
0:41.9	fulfillment we don't tend to
0:43.6	ask people very good questions. We don't tend to get asked very good questions.
0:46.8	And I think that's part of the reason these personality quizzes they really
0:50.2	draw you in or at least they have for me. They've just helped me to
0:53.2	understand myself a little bit better. Now is there some truth to them? Yeah for
0:57.7	sure and to fact some of them are really based in hard science but the reality
1:01.3	is even the ones that are based in hard science there is quite a bit of our character our personality that can and does change and my guess on this week's show will is a psychologist who will talk to you about the malleability of personality, hopefully in an empowering way.
1:15.7	inevitably when you start to do self inquiry and self-awareness exercises, you uncover some things
1:21.1	about yourself that are not serving you, some of which are a social, some of which are toxic, and of course we'd like to know that we could change those and I think that's not always obvious.
1:30.0	If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. I'm your host. I'm a yoga teacher. I'm a trainer.
1:34.4	I'm a serial entrepreneur. I'm a father of three kids. First and foremost, I'm a student. I like to learn things.
1:39.1	So I go into the world and find PhDs and researchers and authors and
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