How to change your personality

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Who are you, really? Our friends at The Gray Area ask whether it's really possible to change. Guest: ⁠Olga Khazan⁠, author of Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For more, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unexplainable⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ And please email us! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠unexplainable@vox.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ We read every email. Support Unexplainable (and get ad-free episodes) by becoming a Vox Member today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/members⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Pushkin Industries, I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and heavyweight is back.
0:06.3	The new season is bigger than ever.
0:08.7	Bigger hopes?
0:09.7	I keep waiting for this moment when he says, Mom, I get it.
0:14.6	I'm sorry.
0:15.9	Bigger dreams.
0:17.1	Tom Hanks wants to meet with you.
0:19.3	This is a real chance.
0:21.2	And bigger heartbreaks.
0:22.7	I thought it would be my movie moment.
0:27.8	And maybe he would even whisper in my ear.
0:29.8	I've always been in love with you.
0:31.8	Check out new episodes of heavyweight on Apple Podcasts.
0:39.6	Support for this show comes from Airbus.
0:42.4	It took 100 years for electric vehicles to catch on.
0:46.3	Modern solar panels?
0:47.7	Half a century.
0:49.3	Lithium batteries?
0:50.7	Decades to go from their debut to daily use.
0:53.5	It's a pattern. Energy tech breaks through,
0:56.0	stalls, and then something tips the scales. But for every success, there are even more
1:02.5	almosts. So what if there was a breakthrough sitting at this crossroads right now?
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