How to Succeed Podcast How to Succeed at Understanding Your Personality
Jul 20, 2020
29:10
Mike Montague interviews Dr. Benjamin Hardy on How to Succeed at Understanding Your Personality. In this episode:
- Best attitude, behavior, and technique on How to Succeed at Understanding Your Personality
- Personality changes over time
- Are personality tests valid?
- Although we’ve changed in the past, we tend to think we’ll remain the same in the future
- Why it’s important to know who you WANT to be
- Beware the Fundamental Attribution Error
- Your personality is not innate and unchangeable
- Predictors of your personality
- Your goals should shape your personality
- Why you should tell people your goals
- How personality tests can give you a fixed mindset
- Traumatic memories can stunt your growth – and how to change that
- Success is being who you planned to be
-Dr. Benjamin Hardy has a PhD in Organizational Psychology
-He’s the bestselling author of Willpower Doesn’t Work
-His website gets hundreds of thousands of views monthly
-From 2015-2018, he was the #1 writer in the world on Medium.com
-His blogs have been read by over 100 million people and are published everywhere
-He grew his email list to almost 400,000 in 3 years without using paid ads
-He and his wife adopted 3 kids from the foster system; a month later, his wife Lauren became pregnant with twins, giving birth to daughters - all within 2018.
He has a new, controversial and mind-blowing book coming out: Personality Isn’t Permanent, (Portfolio; on sale 6/16/2020). This book:
- Debunks the most pervasive myths about personality
- Explains why personality tests like Myers-Briggs and Enneagram are non-scientific, harmful, and lead people to mediocrity
- Reveals how past traumas negatively shape personality, and how-to re-frame those traumas and change your memories and identity narrative
- And tons more…