Personality Isn't Permanent
“You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you haven’t eaten it in years. This is your choice, of course, but don’t kid yourself: it’s also the flinch. Your personality is not set in stone. You may think a morning coffee is the most enjoyable thing in the world, but it’s really just a habit.... See more
Julien Smith Quotes (Author of Trust Agents)
This is a fundamentally different view of “personality”: We are not limited to a collection of traits fixed at birth, or shaped in childhood. We evolve over time through personally meaningful pursuits we decide to take on. This opens up the possibility that we can purposefully choose the ways we want to change, by choosing projects that give us new... See more
Tiago Forte • How Your Projects Shape Who You Are - Forte Labs
Your personality isn’t set in stone, it’s not ingrained, you’re changing and you could change anything about yourself if you would like to. your personality is something deeper than preferences. you must abandon your identity.
You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you haven’t eaten it in years. This is your choice, of course, but don’t kid yourself. It’s also the flinch. Personality is not set in stone. You may think a morning coffee is the most enjoyable thing in the world, but really it’s just a habit. 30 days
... See more… the way to change personality is, essentially, by faking it until you make it. Virtually all researchers agree that the key to changing personality is to alter your daily thoughts and actions. The best personality-change interventions help people figure out what they want to change, tell them how to change, and remind them to continue changing.