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
The book includes true stories of intentional self-transformation--such
as Vanessa O'Brien, who quit her corporate job and set the Guinness
World Record for a woman climbing the highest peak on every continent in
the fastest time; Andre Norman, who became a Harvard fellow after
serving a fourteen-year prison sentence; Ken Arlen, who instantly quit
smoking by changing his identity narrative; and Hardy himself, who
transcended his childhood in a broken home, surrounded by issues of
addiction and mental illness, to earn his PhD and build a happy family.
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.
