Me, But Better - The Science and Promise of Personality Change by Olga Khazan
Summary
- Journalist Olga Khazan does a year long experiment in changing her own personality
Details
- A sense of agency leads to more happiness
- Genetics does not fully explain our personalities
- The key to personality change is to alter your daily thoughts and actions
- Personality change depends on what actions we do
- Social ties lead to more happiness
- People with high openness are more open to experiences love art and music
- Growth Mindset
- Shift from being angry to planning
- Deeper conversations result in a better connection
- Listen for meaning behind peoples words in conversations
- Minimalism is the secret of being organized
Quotes
- Personality is what you do habitually, automatically, without thinking about it, whether it’s how you think about things, how you feel about things, or whether you do certain things - Brent Roberts
- Its a joy to be hidden but a disaster not to be found - D. W. Winnicott
- Most incredible things are built, bit by bit, through persistence and repetition - Olga Khazan