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From KQED.

From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Grace Swan, in for Alexis Madrigal.

Atlantic writer Olga Hazan had a good life, but like any self-admitted neurotic, she wondered if her life could be a little bit better.

She wasn't seeking radical change, but she wanted to be more outgoing, less anxious, the

person who embraced new things.

So for a year, she embarked on a journey through the science of personality. In her new book, Me But Better, Hazan chronicles her quest towards an improved self.

We talked to Hazan and hear from you.

Have you tried to change your personality? How did it go?

All that right after this news. News. Welcome to Forum. I'm Grace Juan, in for Alexis Madrigal. In a past career, I had an employer who had the entire company taking Myers-Briggs test. Apparently, I was an E-N-T-J. Or possibly, along with the firm's entire accounting department, I was an I-F-SP. I mean, I was in my 20s, this was the 90s, and who really knows. What I do remember was that we were told you are who you are. But you like me might be surprised to learn that personality isn't fixed. You can change who you are. And that's what Atlantic writer Olga Hazan attempted to do, leaning on science, experts, and a lot of improv classes,

Hazan embarked on a year-long journey to tweak aspects of herself. She wasn't seeking

radical change, but she wanted to be the kind of person open to new things, happy to host a

party, able to do meditation body scans without falling into a deep, snow-white kind of sleep.

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