Can You Change Your Personality? | Olga Khazan
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Welcome to Behavior Grooves. I'm Kurt Nelson and I'm Tim Hulahan. Today we're excited to talk with our guest, Olga Kazan, about her fascinating book, Me But Better, because it chronicles her personal journey to try to intentionally change her personality. Okay, now Tim, that's that's a pretty big deal. Intentionally changing your personality.
is a big deal. And I had never really thought about it before reading Olga's book. And it's kind of freaky if you think about it. Yeah. Her book explores whether we can actually do it to change the fundamental aspects of who we are.
Now, she wasn't trying to change every aspect of her personality. She was just looking at certain things, like she wanted to increase her extroversion and her agreeableness while at the same time decreasing her neuroticism. Now now Kir Kurt just teed up Three important terms here that I want to call attention to. Extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
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