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Personality Isn't Permanent

Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

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Personality Isn't Permanent

By: Benjamin Hardy
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
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 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. Career Success Motivation & Self-Improvement Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Career Inspiring
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i bought 20 more books just to give away to the community I work with ... absolutely life changing

spectacular

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Terrific book. Thoroughly recommend it. Provides a complete road map for charting a course to your future self and how to implement goals and transformational change. I’ll be reading it again and again.




Very worthwhile read

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I randomly came across this book and I can't find a word for how grateful I am to have done so.

People Need This Book

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A clearly written guide for intentionally designing the future that you want to create for yourself. I'll be listening again with my journal and pen in hand.

Practical and Powerful!

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HIGHLY recommend if you are stuck in your past and eager to get on with the life you have always imagined … clear guidance and information. Genuine Benjamin Hardy

Thank You for Writing this Book

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I absolutely load this book and I am sure I will be really listening it again and again a few times. there are more than few MythBusters. the writer gets to the point very convincingly with the help of stories and in the end the point he makes are eye opening.

amazing book and beautiful narration

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Great narrator, good pacing, truly revealing and the story towards the ending was as true as rain. Will listen again

Nice

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Great practical steps to design and connect to the future self you desire. Quite a few aha moments for me. Definitely a book I will be referring back to time and again.

thought provoking

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I lost interest after chapter three when it kept giving examples of athletes or other achievers who have benefitted from this 'method' eith no explanation of what it is. Seems anecdotal. No other factors were considered, i.e. family history, resilience, trauma recovery. It was all under the one umbrella of personality. Not evidence based.

"This Works!"

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I had high hopes for this book as it argues a point I strongly believe: Most "personality tests" end up being crutches for people.

I think the scientific evidence presented is hardly revolutionary:
- Teenagers go through multiple personalities and can be very different as adults (duh)
- Traumatic/major life events can trigger big changes in people (duh)
- Personality changes with context, confidence/competency, experience, maturity (mostly duh)

There has been a long-standing school that said personality [never?] changed (which this book obviously opposes) - but that depends on your definition of personality; and any inconsistency in what personality includes leads to comparing apples with oranges.

Most (but not all) people I know haven't changed in personality from my perspective for 10 years. Those who have I am saddened/excited when I see it, but they are memorable.

I can think of two people who hold onto their personality types like a birth certificate - but most take it with a grain of salt.
If you do one, make sure it doesn't become a crutch. e.g. If it comes out you're introverted, practice being more extroverted - not closing the curtains and resigning as an introvert.

Mostly just common sense - rare as that is

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