Personality Isn't Permanent

Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

By: Benjamin Hardy

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's summary

Psychologist and best-selling 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 audiobook 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 14-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.

©2020 Benjamin Hardy (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"This is a generous, empowering and purposeful book. If you're ready, it will help you unlock a future that you may have been brainwashed into believing wasn't possible. Worth sharing a copy with someone you care about." (Seth Godin, author of This Is Marketing)

"Personality Isn't Permanent is possibly the best self-help book I've ever read, and a book that will redefine the genre. After this book, it's no longer good enough to talk about untested theory - Hardy backs everything up with both amazing stories and cutting edge, tested science, while still making it actionable to anyone. Best part: this is the book that destroys all the useless personality test peddlers that infect the world." (Tucker Max, author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell)

"In Personality Isn’t Permanent, Hardy crushes an outdated paradigm and gives you the process to create a bigger, bolder future." (J. J. Virgin, author of The Virgin Diet)

Un must si deseas encaminar tus metas

Este libro empieza muy lento si ya tienes nociones sobre los mitos de las identidades, o si leíste Willpower doesn’t work. Sin embargo una vez pasando ese capítulo inicial, es inmensamente útil para reconocer cómo ser un mejor amigo/pareja y estar preparados para responder mejor ante situaciones emocionales.

Sin lugar a dudas, Ben Hardy es un gran referente de Napoleon Hill.

Very impressive

As a psychology major in college, this book was very different from what I was expecting. The author pokes holes in the backing of the most popular personality tests of the day and reframes the schema of personality as a fixed trait to a flexible and changing element that is a result and not a determiner of choice. This opened my eyes to a new way of thinking about myself and my future. Highly recommend!

Important message but perhaps too idealistic

The author makes strong points about our abilities to change ourselves. The central tenets of the book pair well with Carol Dwecks work in The Growth Mindset. The book also contains many simple, pragmatic tips about how to put decisions into practice and better align one's goals with one's actions. At the same time, the book may go a bit too far. Especially when speaking about people who have gone through severe trauma, there are parts which may appear insensitive or callus. Notwithstanding, the book is solid. Our future selves are ours to create and Benjamin Hardy will leave you with some tips on seeing it through.

Seriously one of the best in years!

About 10 years ago I started picking up self help books, I've listened too and read dozens of not hundreds I've that decade. More or less to just pass the time while in the car or maybe spring a interesting idea before bed. To be honest I never even heard of Benjamin Hardy prior to this book, but wow what a great one. I've recommend it to so many different people, and I'm getting the Kindle version just to go back through the darn thing....I've never done that before just to let you know. Check this book out, your going to love it!

Empowering Content and Narration

The narration became the author's voice for me. So earnest and genuine. I owe gratitude to both the author and reader for a deep and fantastic experience. Would recommend to anyone who enjoys goal setting, reflection, psychology, or behavioral theories.

Breaking Free Of The Past And Creating A New Future Self

Benjamin Hardy helps you break free from limiting beliefs and self sabotage from shameful experiences and poor choices in your past.
His book gives insight and direction to give you hope and motivation to conquer your fears and become the you that you’ve always wanted to be. The you that is waiting patiently for you to acknowledge them—your inner self.

filled with great info

I bought this book just to see what it said, and I had already begun my journey to a new life. I love it, and will come back to it again.

Will It make the boat go faster?

Will It make the boat go faster?
Yes. The book gives you a great strategy to accept your current situation as something that happened for you, not to you, and facilitate becoming the person you envision.

Both entertaining and insightful

This Book gives you a completely new outlook on what is possible and how to achieve it

Must read

For many years I thought that personality is permanent and I was a prisoner on my predefined personality. Just reading this book broke the imaginary wall of personality. I feel free and I will work on creating my future self.