I Gave Myself Three Months to Change My Personality
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
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In a fascinating study, a group of prominent researchers measured the personalities, values, and preferences of 19,000 people ranging in age from 18 to 68. They found a wide gap between the expected and reported changes in those qualities. We look backward over our lives differently than we look forward. The researchers discovered that people are e
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psychologically, you can become a completely different person.
Benjamin Hardy • Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success
The greatest value in thinking of personality as “doing projects” rather than “having traits” is in three powerful words: potential for change. We can consciously choose and adapt our projects in ways that we cannot change our traits.
Brian R. Little • Who Are You, Really?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality (TED Books)
They have sought methods that would instill change so deeply that a person’s intuitive responses to situations would be altered and brought more in line with their values.
Alan Morinis • Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar
Instead, she told me, in a clever inversion of a hallowed axiom, “First act and then think.” Ibarra marshaled social psychology to argue persuasively that we are each made up of numerous possibilities. As she put it, “We discover the possibilities by doing, by trying new activities, building new networks, finding new role models.” We learn who we a
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