Is your life predetermined with your fate written in the stars? Or was William Henley correct when he ended Invictus, one of the most famous poems in modern history with “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul?”

Today we find the answer to this very question by gazing through the lens of personality psychology with an expert in this very field as well as a dear friend to the show and to me personally Dr. Daniel Franz

My name is Matthew Lostaglia and I am the host of the Real-Resilience Podcast. This show is my journey to understand the link between individual resilience our need for connection, and improving culture in the workplace.

Dr. Franz may be the most prolific expert & clinician in logotherapy as one of less than 1,700 people WORLDWIDE (as my very scientific LinkedIn Search told me) hence why I am Matt, and he is Dr. Franz, or as we have come to cheerfully refer to him “Dr. Dan”, he is also an MBTI certified practitioner which is quite helpful for this conversation! Dr. Dan is also a mental health and clinical addictions counselor.

Dr. Dan and I talk about what your personality looks like and why it may seem to change when your really happy or very stressed out. Dan also reveals secrets I never knew about personality and how it impacts our ability to communicate with each other. Specifically we dive into how introverts and extroverts communicate, why it typically ends in complete and utter disaster and most importantly what you can do about it even if you’re not in a position of authority.

Another really fun and exciting element I have added into the Real-Resilience Podcast is audience questions. I put out a series of posts asking my LinkedIn people what they wanted to know about personality if they could ask questions to an expert free of cost! I’ll tell you what, we have had some amazing questions come in and we got to as many as we could which really brought this conversation to a new level.

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00:0003:14 Horoscopes VS Personality

4:44 - Are Personality Traits Flexible?

6:27 Stress Impact on Personality Traits

7:18 What is "Being in the grip" of personality

12:17 Flavors of Stress - Impact on Personality

14:41 Personality on a Spectrum| MBTI

19:03 MBTI & World War II

21:39 MMPI

23:52 Moon Cycle Impact on Adolescents

28:12 Personality Traits/Behaviors of Good and Bad Leaders

30:12 Introvert VS Extrovert Communication Styles

39:06 Audience Question - Manya Chylinski - Communication Styles and Personality Traits

39:39 Is Personality Moldable? Can we change our personality traits?

40:52 Audience Question - Sheree - How can we manage parts of our personality that do not serve us?