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  • Personality Isn't Permanent

  • Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story
  • Written by: Benjamin Hardy
  • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
  • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (52 ratings)

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Written by: Benjamin Hardy
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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)

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Insightful book on personality change

Excellent book with insights on changing ones past beliefs and getting to future self

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Myths Debunked

Literally Debunks all the myths that surround us regarding personality and talks about how we cannot evolve and transcend above situations that are thrown our way, only for us to grow and prosper for our journey ahead. A must read for anyone who is conservative, wants to move on with rejections, failures etc.

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One must read this book. Worth reading.

I could relate many similar occurrences with my life while reading this book. The reader sounds very very good... I am definitely going to make use of the tips gained from the book. Changing the environment, getting exposure, practice fasting, consciousness, decision fatigue etc.. are all so true... Thank you so much Benjamin for sharing your learnings and experiences with us. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.

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Force govern to change personality

Personality is not permanent is a fabulous book narrated in a manner to relate various forces like past,sorry,future and perception. It upgrade us to think and use of past experience,learning from failure and monitoring of goals to accomplish changes.

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Inspiring

Some of the things in the book were hard to believe but overall it's an amazing book. It may inspire you to change and take control of your life.

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Hopefully life-changing for me!

This book has personally struck a chord with me, and I found this at the perfect time of my life.
I always thought about myself that I'm an introvert, bad in social situations, can never be a leader.
But this book challenges my beliefs.
And the ideas from the book motivates me to become who I want to be.
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The voice of the narrator is moving.
I will listen to this audiobook again and again as I make progress with my ambitions.

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Life Changing Book!!

You will not be the same after you go through this book. It truly breaks down all myths you would have heard about personality and change !!

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a new prospective

It gives you a new approach to life , we have been made to believe something about us but this book helps you to challenge or break your personality barriers and help in setting you free and make you feel lighter .

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Loved the book.

listened to the book twice because I've found so many nuggets of information that can be applied right now on my daily life. changed my perspective and gave me the confidence and the tools necessary to build my future ensuring that it is the best version of me. Highly recommended

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High Impact Book

I'm sure this book is going to have a massive impact on my future.

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