Changing your personality in 3 months
Today on The 21st, we talked about something we all have: Personality. Maybe you’re talkative and extroverted, or you’ve always felt a little more shy and introspective. When it comes to agreeableness, do you generally trust other people? Or maybe you're a little more skeptical of people's motivations. One of our guests wanted to see if her personality could actually be changed, and she gave herself three months to do it through a series of activities.
She joined us, along with one of the experts she consulted, to talk about how her experiment played out and what she learned along the way.
GUESTS:
Olga Khazan
Staff Writer, The Atlantic | Author, Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World
Brent Roberts
Psychology Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Last summer, I began an unusual experiment: To change my own personality https://t.co/04JDvTfChO pic.twitter.com/lq37tRmfVN
— Olga Khazan (@olgakhazan) February 10, 2022
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