Personality Isn’t Permanent, with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

#265: Are you the same person you were five years ago? Ten years ago? Fifteen years ago? Of course not. Things in your life have changed: your interests, hobbies, decision-making process, and habits are different than they were a decade ago. Likewise, our personality changes -- and this means we can decide who we want to become. Today’s guest, organizational psychologist Dr. Benjamin Hardy, literally wrote the book on personality impermanence. During this episode, he shares research on why our personalities aren’t as fixed as we think they are and the strategies we can use to change. Dr. Hardy is the bestselling author of Willpower Doesn’t Work and Personality Isn’t Permanent. He’s a contributor to Inc. and Psychology Today. From 2015-2018, he was the number one writer on Medium.com. If you want to rise to the level of your goals, rather than fall to the patterns of your past, this episode is for you. For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode265 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can afford anything but not everything.
0:10.8	Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just
0:13.4	apply to your money, that applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention,
0:17.7	anything in your life.
0:18.7	That is a scarce or limited resource and that opens up two questions.
0:22.8	First, what matters most to you?
0:25.0	Well what does society say should matter most but what is truly a priority in your life?
0:31.3	And number two, how do you align your daily decision making to reflect that?
0:37.8	Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice and that is what this podcast is here
0:41.3	to explore.
0:42.3	My name is Paula Pant, I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast and today Dr. Benjamin
0:46.2	Hardy joins us to talk about how personality is not as permanent as we might think.
0:53.4	Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist who has written extensively about topics such
0:58.2	as personality, willpower and motivation.
1:01.3	He is a contributor to Psychology Today, Inc.com and he was the number one writer on medium.com
1:07.6	from 2015 to 2018.
1:10.0	He's the best-selling author of Will Power Doesn't Work and has now published a new book called
1:14.2	Personality Isn't Permanent.
1:16.3	On today's episode we discussed how our personalities are not as fixed as we think they are and what
1:21.5	we can do if we want to change our sense of identity in order to rise to the level of our
1:26.0	goals rather than fall to the patterns of our past.
1:29.8	If this is a concept that intrigues you, listen on, here is Dr. Benjamin Hardy.
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