Personality Isn't Permanent
Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Psychologist and bestselling author Benjamin Hardy, PhD, debunks the pervasive myths about personality that prevent us from learning—and provides bold strategies for personal transformation
In Personality Isn’t Permanent, Dr. Benjamin Hardy draws on psychological research to demolish the popular misconception that personality—a person’s consistent attitudes and behaviors—is innate and unchanging. Hardy liberates us from the limiting belief that our “true selves” are to be discovered, and shows how we can intentionally create our desired selves and achieve amazing goals instead. He offers practical, science-based advice to for personal-reinvention, including:
• Why personality tests such as Myers-Briggs and Enneagram are not only psychologically destructive but are no more scientific than horoscopes
• Why you should never be the “former” anything--because defining yourself by your past successes is just as damaging to growth as being haunted by past failures
• How to design your current identity based on your desired future self and make decisions here-and-now through your new identity
• How to reframe traumatic and painful experiences into a fresh narrative supporting your future success
• How to become confident enough to define your own life’s purpose
• How to create a network of “empathetic witnesses” who actively encourage you through the highs and lows of extreme growth
• How to enhance your subconscious to overcome addictions and limiting patterns
• How redesign your environment to pull you toward your future, rather than keep you stuck in the past
• How to tap into what psychologists call “pull motivation” by narrowing your focus on a single, definable, and compelling outcome
Filled with strategies for reframing your past and designing your future, Personality Isn’t Permanent is a guide to breaking free from the past and becoming the person you want to be.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hardy (Willpower Doesn't Work), an organizational psychologist, proposes personality is "an effect, not a cause" in this dynamic work. For Hardy, one's personality constantly shifts and is largely dependent on a person's relationships, surroundings, age, profession, and "reaction to life events, circumstances, and social pressures." Contending that all personality traits can be changed with determination and focus, Hardy encourages people to develop their personalities using the four "personality levers": trauma, identity narrative, the subconscious, and the environment. Adjusting these levers through attention to one's reactions to others and one's circumstances results in positive shifts in personality, he suggests; however, if one stops, one's routines, habits, and personality can become stagnant. Hardy urges simple methods for readers to become more aware of their predilections and living environment in oder to make conscious changes, such as journaling, fasting, donating to charity, waking up an hour earlier, and pursuing different hobbies. While none of these suggestions are new, Hardy's upbeat, empowering tone will have wide appeal. This motivating look at the evolution of personal affinities will appeal to self-help readers looking to think outside the box.
