Think from KERA

Is your personality permanent?


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Can an introvert simply decide one day to become an extrovert? What about willing yourself to happiness? Atlantic staff writer Olga Khazan joins host Krys Boyd to talk about her quest to change five traits of her personality: extroversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness and neuroticism, and the lessons she learned along the way. Her recent essay about the experience is headlined “My Personality Transplant.”
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