Episode Details

Mike Montague interviews Dr. Benjamin Hardy on How to Succeed at Understanding Your Personality. In this episode:

• Best attitude, behavior, and technique on How to Succeed at Understanding Your Personality
• Personality changes over time
• Are personality tests valid?
• Although we've changed in the past, we tend to think we'll remain the same in the future
• Why it's important to know who you WANT to be
• Beware the Fundamental Attribution Error
• Your personality is not innate and unchangeable
• Predictors of your personality
• Your goals should shape your personality
• Why you should tell people your goals
• How personality tests can give you a fixed mindset
• Traumatic memories can stunt your growth – and how to change that
• Success is being who you planned to be

-Dr. Benjamin Hardy has a PhD in Organizational Psychology

-He's the bestselling author of Willpower Doesn't Work

-His website gets hundreds of thousands of views monthly

-From 2015-2018, he was the #1 writer in the world on Medium.com

-His blogs have been read by over 100 million people and are published everywhere

-He grew his email list to almost 400,000 in 3 years without using paid ads

-He and his wife adopted 3 kids from the foster system; a month later, his wife Lauren became pregnant with twins, giving birth to daughters - all within 2018.

He has a new, controversial and mind-blowing book coming out: Personality Isn't Permanent, (Portfolio; on sale 6/16/2020). This book:

• Debunks the most pervasive myths about personality
• Explains why personality tests like Myers-Briggs and Enneagram are non-scientific, harmful, and lead people to mediocrity
• Reveals how past traumas negatively shape personality, and how-to re-frame those traumas and change your memories and identity narrative
• And tons more…

The How to Succeed P