Olga Khazan
29 thoughts in this book draw on Olga Khazan.
Books & sources
- Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change · 29 thoughts
The thoughts
- But the science behind it is remarkably simple
- In most of us, by the age of 30…
- life through four lenses
- Most people aren't ENTJs or ISFPs
- Much more recently, Jessica Schleider, an assistant professor at…
- Roberts likens personality to a tapestry-an intricate composition in…
- . "Personality is what you do habitually, automatically, without…
- Eventually, he identified 4,500 such traits, including words like…
- For the next year, whenever I hovered my cursor…
- He and his coauthors created a website that would…
- He and his coauthors created a website that would…
- Higher levels of all five of those variables are…
- However, even Jung cautioned that "there is no such…
- I decided to behave like the healthiest, happiest, and…
- I decided to com-bine the challenges from Hudson's study…
- I decided to combine the challenges from Hudson's study…
- I have a solid relationship, an interesting job, and…
- I have a solid relationship, an interesting job, and…
- Inside me there are two wolves
- Most people aren't ENTJs or ISFPs
- People find it difficult to imagine how they might…
- People find it difficult to imagine how they might…
- The best "program" for changing personality comes from a…
- The most important reason to change your personality, though…
- The most important reason to change your personality, though…
- The traits can be remembered with the acronym OCEAN
- Whenever I'm feeling anxious, my therapist likes to say…
- You don't have to put your life on hold…
- you get curious about its effect in your body