Psychologist and bestselling author Benjamin Hardy PhD debunks the pervasive myths about
personality that prevent us from learning-and provides bold strategies for personal
transformation In Personality Isn't Permanent Dr. Benjamin Hardy draws on psychological
research to demolish the popular misconception that personality-a person's consistent attitudes
and behaviors-is innate and unchanging. Hardy liberates us from the limiting belief that our
true selves are to be discovered and shows how we can intentionally create our desired selves
and achieve amazing goals instead. He offers practical science-based advice to for
personal-reinvention including: • Why personality tests such as Myers-Briggs and Enneagram are
not only psychologically destructive but are no more scientific than horoscopes • Why you
should never be the former anything--because defining yourself by your past successes is just
as damaging to growth as being haunted by past failures • How to design your current identity
based on your desired future self and make decisions here-and-now through your new identity •
How to reframe traumatic and painful experiences into a fresh narrative supporting your future
success • How to become confident enough to define your own life's purpose • How to create a
network of empathetic witnesses who actively encourage you through the highs and lows of
extreme growth • How to enhance your subconscious to overcome addictions and limiting patterns
• How redesign your environment to pull you toward your future rather than keep you stuck in
the past • How to tap into what psychologists call pull motivation by narrowing your focus on a
single definable and compelling outcome The book includes true stories of intentional
self-transformation-such as Vanessa O'Brien who quit her corporate job and set the Guinness
World Record for a woman climbing the highest peak on every continent in the fastest time
Andre Norman who became a Harvard fellow after serving a fourteen-year prison sentence Ken
Arlen who instantly quit smoking by changing his identity narrative and Hardy himself who
transcended his childhood in a broken home surrounded by issues of addiction and mental
illness to earn his PhD and build a happy family. Filled with strategies for reframing your
past and designing your future Personality Isn't Permanent is a guide to breaking free from
the past and becoming the person you want to be.
