June 16, 2020

CL265: Personality Tests – Interview with Dr Benjamin Hardy

27 minutes

The Big Problem With Personality Tests

James Taylor interviews Dr Benjamin Hardy and they talk about the big problem with personality tests.

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, Big Think, and many more. 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. His latest book Personality Isn’t Permanent debunks the pervasive myths of personality as well as tests like Myers Briggs.

In this episode, we cover:

3:03 - The changing personality

3:52 - The body keeps score

4:19 - How trauma freezes your personality

5:36 - Myers Briggs tests

7:04 - Carl Jung and the personality

8:33 - Content vs Context

10:05 - Mindfulness and Mindlessness

10:53 - Your current and future self

11:26 - Defining the person you want to be

13:08 - The goal should shape the process

13:52 - Personality as a comfort zone

14:22 - The goal of selling millions of books

15:08 - Your goals shape your identity

17:44 - Atomic Habits by James Clear

22:35 - Setting better goals

Resources mentioned in this episode:

To learn about Benjamin Hardy go to benjaminhardy.com

Buy 'Personality Isn't Permanent' from Amazon

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