Hello friends, welcome back to the show.

My guest today is Dr. Christian Jarrett, he's a deputy editor of Psych and An Author.

Most people believe that they are their personalities, that it's an immutable, unchanging, central

part of them as a person.

But psychologists and neuroscientists have been studying the science of personality

change for many years, and have uncovered strategies to nudge your personality in the

direction you want.

To learn why most personality tests are basically useless, how genetically heritable our personalities

are, just how much of a change we can make from where we start off, how to stop being so

shy or introverted, the best strategies to become more ambitious and conscientious, the

most effective ways to maintain personality change, and much more.

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