Why You Need to Stop Thinking Your Personality Has a Type with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Are you a fan of personality tests? Curious about them? Do you ever feel stagnant and stuck? Today, I’m interviewing Dr. Benjamin Hardy about why personality tests are more harmful than helpful, daily habits that will change your life, and how to look at your identity in order to thrive. His new book Personality Isn’t Permanent comes out today and covers way more than we did in this interview. Take a listen if you’re ready to change your life and get his book today for even more support.

He talks about:

- How he juggled starting graduate school and becoming a father for the first time to three foster children in the same year [2:24]

- How his morning routine saved him and kept him going

- What his spiritual practice looks like [4:44]

- Why personality tests are unscientific and harmful  [8:00]

- How labeling yourself as an introvert or extrovert can limit you and make you inflexible [11:45]

- Why it’s good to view your former self as a different person [14:00]

- Why you need the future to function properly [17:00]

- What the future self filter is and how it helps you grow [21:22]

- How to know if a goal is ego driven or truly aligned with who you are [28:31]

- Why he firmly believes you should never be the former anything [34:05]

- Ways to act upon and connect to your future self [35:00]

- His thoughts on how identity is a choice [43:29]

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