Hello and welcome to Personality Hacker. I'm Jonathan and you are listening to

Personality in practice. In the most recent podcast, Joel and Antonio talk about 13 principles of strong

personalities. I was sitting down at work to get some charting done and I tuned into the podcast.

As I listened to each of these principles, I wondered, did I have a strong personality as a child?

I remember when I was 12 years old. Some friends of mine and I tried out for the local community choir. We all gathered around as the director had us try out in front of one another.

I remember up into that point having confidence in my part. But when I started singing

the director waved his hands cut me off and said,

That's not you, that's not your voice. You're copying another voice.

At that point, I cannot tell you if I recovered. I was so embarrassed.

I had always thought of myself as a little bit of a mimic or copycat with little to no authenticity

and having those words ring in my ears only confirmed what I knew to be true,

that my voice was a fake. I didn't join the choir. In fact, I don't remember what I did with my summer that year.

After listening to the podcast the other day, what I did with my summer that year.

After listening to the podcast the other day,

I thought, why don't I walk myself

through those 13 principles

to see how I fared for better or worse.

If you can stomach my analysis, I'm going to try and be as honest as possible

because I want a clean scan of that incident as a 12 year old and what kind of relationship I have with my own voice,

whether it's singing or speaking.

So here we go.

Principal number one, don't feel sorry for yourself. Well, I did. Did I feel sorry for myself? In fact, I didn't sing for a very long time because every time I eked out the words,

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