What Is Personality?
When I got the email with the opportunity to review Benjamin Hardy’s book “Personality isn’t permanent” I jumped at the chance. I love Ben’s down-to-earth style of writing and how he uses great stories to illustrate his points. I love his work is based in science.
As I read this book, I learned that I get to choose who we want to be, regardless of who we’ve been. It teaches why I get stuck in unhealthy patterns and how to overcome what I believe is true about me.
Personality Isn’t Permanent
Benjamin Hardy explains contrary to popular belief personality is forever changing. We are not the same person we were yesterday or will be tomorrow. However, many of us believe “That is just who I am” and “I was born this way” or “It is in my genes” as if we have no control over who we are.
Personality Tests And Other Myths
I love taking a good personality test. Don’t you? I thought it helped me figure out who I am. The problem with personality test is I decide the test is who I am now and will be in the future. In his book, Ben explains these tests keep us from moving forward and changing our habits because we believe it’s just who we are. So, we choose careers based on random personality tests. How scientific is that? I learned about all of the myths we believe about personality. One of the myths is our personality is unchanging. However, Ben says, we are not the same person we were yesterday and we will be different people tomorrow.
Worth Its Weight
Doodle Therapy and Personality Isn’t Permanent are much the same. Both are about hope and change and becoming who we are meant to be. I have waited for things to change instead of being the change. But when we change ourselves everything changes around us. I loved reading this book and will read it again and again. It is filled with practical advice and awesome action steps to help us get where we want to go.
What I learned from Personality Isn’t Permanent
The Gold Nuggets I found in “Personality Isn’t Permanent include how we can:
- Reframe our trauma to make it work for us instead of against us.
- Choose our own future despite our past.
- Become more confident and define our life’s purpose.
- Enhance our subconscious so we can overcome addictions and limiting beliefs.
- Learn better ways of journaling to improve our chances of reaching our goals.
- Create an environment that encourages us to become the future us we envision.
- Set goals that will propel us into the future that we desire.
- Change our thoughts so we can change our future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author of Willpower Doesn’t Work. His blogs have been read by over 100 million people and are featured on Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Cheddar, Big Think, and many others. He is a regular contributor to Inc. and Psychology Today and from 2015-2018, he was the #1 writer, in the world, on Medium.com. He and his wife Lauren adopted three children through the foster system in February 2018 and, one month later, Lauren became pregnant with twins, who were born in December of 2018. They live in Orlando.
ABOUT Personality Isn’t Permanent
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 best selves and achieve big goals instead.
He offers practical, science-based advice to for self-reinvention, including:
- Why we should never be the “former” anything—defining ourself by our past successes can be just as damaging to our potential to grow as being haunted by past failures
- How to design a desired vision of our future self and make decisions based on what the future you would want.
- Why personality tests such as Myers-Briggs and Enneagram are not only psychologically destructive but are no more scientific than horoscopes.
- How to tap into what psychologists call “pull motivation” by narrowing your focus on a single, definable, and compelling outcome.
Pick up a copy today and let go of who you thought you were so you can become who you were always meant to be.
Cindy is the author “Doodle Healing”. A fun, easy, and effective guide to design a life of purpose and joy no matter your circumstances.
She teaches Doodle Therapy courses designed to help women improve their emotional and mental health 40X faster with doodling than without.
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