I Gave Myself Three Months to Change My Personality
But here’s what’s interesting: As a person ages, they tend to stop engaging in new situations, experiences, and environments. In other words, people’s personalities become increasingly consistent because they stop putting themselves into new contexts.
Benjamin Hardy • Personality Isn't Permanent
Thrill and Adventure Seeking (TAS, indexing activities such as sky-diving and mountain climbing), Disinhibition (DIS, indexing behaviours like drug and alcohol abuse, vandalism or unsafe sex), Experience Seeking (ES, indexing travel, psychedelic drugs and music) and Boredom Susceptibility (BS, indexing proneness to boredom and the need to be doing
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That’s why personality change is most clearly seen at times of major life change—conscientiousness tends to increase when parenthood and professional duties demand that you ramp up the responsibility levels.
Sam Gosling • Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
When working for you, identity change can be a powerful force for self-improvement. When working against you, though, identity change can be a curse.
James Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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)
- I know that environmental influence is the most effective form of behavioral control. Accordingly, if you want radical change, radically change your environment. Being in the wrong city will cancel out years of self-improvement.