Is It Possible To Improve Your Personality? The Science Says Yes. Here's How To Do It. | Olga Khazan

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody, how are we doing? Today we are going to examine a pretty intriguing set of questions. Can you change your personality?

Should you change your personality? And what exactly is a personality anyway? The science says you can change your personality and that there are evidence-based ways to do it. So today we're going to meet a journalist who took on this very project and came back with some hilarious stories and also some very concrete takeaways. Olga Hazan is a staff writer for The Atlantic.

Her new book is called Me But Better. Great title. In this conversation we cover the definition of personality, the so-called big five aspects of personality and her attempts to work on each of them, how to spice up your social life, the concept of conscientiousness and how to get better at it, and antidote to procrastination, tips for reducing neuroticism, the role of psychedelics, and practical and this is incredibly helpful, practical ways to make reasonable, marginal, but meaningful changes in the middle of your very busy life. By the way, if you're looking to turn down the volume on your own penchant for procrastination, we have a custom meditation for you, specifically designed as a companion to this episode.

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