The Possibilities of Personality Change
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Just a few years in the past, my colleague Olga Khazan carried out an experiment—“pattern dimension: 1”—to see whether or not she may change her character. “I’ve by no means actually appreciated my character, and different individuals don’t prefer it both,” she wrote. “In grad faculty, a companion and I have been assigned to put in writing faux obituaries for one another by interviewing our households and pals. The nicest factor my companion may shake out of my family members was that I ‘actually take pleasure in grocery procuring.’”
Personally, I’d say having fun with grocery procuring is the mark of a curious and fun-loving individual. (What’s higher than a Sunday afternoon within the snack aisle?) However Olga believed that she may make herself happier by altering her character, so she gave herself three months to turn into friendlier and extra extroverted—and got here to be taught that incremental character change counts as actual change. “Being barely completely different continues to be being completely different—the identical you however with higher armor,” she wrote.
Right this moment’s publication explores why individuals are so drawn to measuring their character, and what we will do with that info.
On Character
I Gave Myself Three Months to Change My Character
By Olga Khazan
The outcomes have been combined.
What Your Favourite Character Check Says About You
By Kelly Conaboy
Are you a Myers-Briggs individual, an Enneagram individual, or one thing else?
The Atlantic made a quiz that can assist you discover out.
The Thriller of Companion ‘Convergence’
By Religion Hill
{Couples}’ personalities can turn into extra related over time—however the causes are nonetheless enigmatic.
Nonetheless Curious?
- The reality about individuals who haven’t any character: They really simply maintain their opinions to themselves, Olga wrote in 2019.
- A career just isn’t a character: Decreasing your self to any single attribute, whether or not it’s your title or your job efficiency, is a deeply damaging act, Arthur C. Brooks wrote in 2021.
Different Diversions
- Not everybody must go to remedy.
- The unhappy way forward for grocery procuring
- The brand new age of countless parenting
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