The Psychology Podcast
New Year, New Personality: Science-Backed Tips to Actually Change Yourself
Olivier Chabot's AI podcast notes AI-generated based on their snips
AI-generated based on their snips
1. Personality traits can and do change over time through repeated state level changes that eventually become hardened trait level changes.
2. Successfully completing challenges can lead to greater personality growth for most of the big five traits, while desiring trait change but not following through can have negative effects.
3. Continually accepting but failing extraversion challenges may lead to decreased extraversion levels over time.
4. Declaring a goal may create a premature sense of progress, undermining motivation to actually work towards the goal.
5. Long-lasting changes in personality can be achieved by repeatedly changing habits of thinking, acting, and reacting to the world.
