Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• You should design your own personality
• The biggest problem with identity is that it’s defined by what you’ve done, not what you’ll do
• The Comfort Zone – people avoid difficult or challenging situations, so they don’t fail  
• People default to their past – because it’s easier than imagining themselves in the future
• 90% of people are dissatisfied with some aspect of their personality
• Hold your current identity loosely- don’t let the now define you
• The key to reframing your past: be open about it
  • Step I: choose better meanings for your past, view it positively – have more empathy for yourself
  • Step II: Don’t be defined by your past, be defined by your goals
• Step III: Think about who your future self will be
• Step IV: Change your identity narrative – tell people your goals!  

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Dr Benjamin Hardy is an organisational psychologist and an author.

Do you believe that your personality is permanent? Innate & inbuilt? Dr Hardy disagrees.

Expect to learn why Myers-Briggs & other personality tests are destructive & as inaccurate as horoscopes, how to reframe your past narratives, why you can overcome traumas, how to become the scribe of your own identity narrative and much more...

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