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.