Episode 72: Unstressing Your Personality To Experience The Joy Of Life, with Dr. Lynn Owens [PODCAST]

Today’s guest is a wealth of insight and knowledge about the way human beings are made up, psychologically and physically. Dr. Lynn Owens has the degrees and expertise from her research that fuel her extensive passion for making a difference in the lives of others. The current focus of Lynn’s work is in understanding the connection between personality and performance. This conversation centers around how the wrong personality fit into life roles can create stress, lack of fulfillment, and all kinds of problems. Be sure you listen, it’s an enlightening and powerful conversation.

What would happen if you could harness the power of your personality?

Currently, Dr. Lynn Owens is focusing on understanding how to harness the strengths of a person’s personality to maximize their performance. The overall result of her work suggests that personality matters, a lot. By understanding your unique personality strengths and the effects of stress on those strengths, massive changes can happen in your everyday life. Learn more about the possibilities as David and Lynn chat, on this episode.

Ever feel like a square peg in a round hole?

That’s a feeling you get when your personality and the strengths it brings to your life, are not properly fit with the roles you’re playing in your life. There’s a natural “fit” that you need to find, where your personality and the tasks you have to fulfill in life are in sync with each other. When you find that place, you are energized instead of stressed and able to carry a heavier load than you thought possible. Hear how Dr. Lynn Owens’ research is paving the way for more people to discover this important nuance to life, on this episode of Crank It Up.

There’s no right or wrong personality, only “real” personalities.

Naturally, each of us views life from inside our own head, without an easy way to see life from the viewpoint of other people. Coming from that place, it’s easy to feel that the way someone else is doing things is “wrong.” But Dr. Lynn Owens has discovered that personality and stylistic differences are neither right or wrong, but simply real. They exist. They are there. Our job is to learn how to live with and support them in ways that bring benefit to the world, in ourselves and in others. You’ll gain some great new insights listening to this conversation, so be sure you set aside the time to do so.

5 things you can do to address the stresses on your personality.

Research is revealing that much of the stress people feel in life comes from a bad “fit” between their personality and the roles they play in life. In this episode Dr. Lynn Owens reveals 5 simple things the average person can do to begin addressing the damaging effects of that kind of stress. The first 3 are adequate rest, exercise, and healthy eating. To hear the final two (and the one Dr. Owens recommends as the best starting place) be sure to listen.

Outline of this great episode

[0:48] David’s welcome and introduction to this great conversation with Dr. Lynn Owens.

[1:40] Lynn’s explanation of her own journey, it started 40 years ago.

[8:19] What really IS a personality? What is genetic and what is formed?

[13:43] Wearing masks and walking an authentic path.

[20:03] How stress impacts the expression of personality.

[22:34] How these issues impact the relationship between couples.

[28:41] Can a person’s capacity grow or diminish?

[31:14] What can do if you’re feeling like you’re not in a good fit between personality and what you do in life.

[35:52] How addictions fit into the spiral of a bad personality fit.

[38:18] What can be done now to move in a better direction.

[45:58] How to connect with Dr. Owens.

Resources mentioned on this episode  

www.PerformanceWorksMT.com

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