1042: Self-Improvement through Personality Change with Olga Khazan

If you behave in a way that aligns with the kind of person that you'd like to be, you can actually shift your personality in that direction. One study found that even a small reduction in neuroticism was like earning three hundred and fourteen thousand more dollars a year. One of the takeaways is that you can improve your life even if nothing in your life really improves. Like I had the same exact job before and after this project. I live in the same house, but I honestly feel like a lot better and more fulfilled. And to me, that's sort of the difference that a small amount of reduction in eroticism can do. That's all the Kazan. She's an award winning writer for The Atlantic and a two-time author. Her latest book is Me But Better.

The science and promise of personality change. So you'll learn one. The problem with authenticity. Two the surprisingly simple secret to changing your personality. And three, the simple interventions that make us less neurotic.

And if you want to get a summary write up of some of these actionable takeaways, I recommend you sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter at awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McKitis. This is how to be awesome at your job. And now? Orga. Og welcome!

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (35 minutes, 6,494 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 10 episodes for $5, and monthly plans are cheaper still.