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#523 - Dr Christian Jarrett - The Science Of Personality Change

Modern Wisdom

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Personal Project Analysis

It's hard to dispute some of these links between something like conscientiousness because higher conscientiousness is associated with so many preferable outcomes in life. You can go too far with conscientiousness, it can potentially slip into obsessive, unhealthy perfectionist tendencies. But exactly what you're describing is these roads that we travel down, all these situations we find ourselves in in life, they are all the time kind of feeding back and shaping us. And one of the techniques I describe in the book, it's from the personality psychologist Brian Little. He calls it personal project analysis. And it's all about actually taking the time, sit down, reflect on all the various personal projects you have including running a nightclub

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