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)

A Powerful Blueprint for Evoking Who You Want to Become

I started out with the print copy of this book. But quickly realized I also needed the audio version as well—so I could listen while doing chores or driving—and really soak it in. This is a book I can see myself re-reading many times. And I know, each time I re-read it, I’ll be a different Future version of myself.

I will, therefore, absorb even more each time. Benjamin Hardy’s book is PACKED Full of insightful and valuable information which can provoke personal growth—if we allow it to do so and do the inner work to bring it about. I highly recommend reading (& re-reading) this book.
~Paula

I truly believe that this book is for the world....

For a self help book, this one has a ton of golden nuggets. If you have never taken the time to reflect on your life, and look deeper into your desired future self. I would highly suggest picking this book up. An amazing listen!

My new #1

Life Changing! This book helped me identify and adjust a lot of patterns formed in childhood THAT I WASN’T AWARE OF.

What a insightful book!

I just finished this book and my first though was ‘I really want to read it again!’. A very powerful, insightful and life changing book. A must read for those who are looking for a change in their lives. The good news is: yes, it is possible, as long as you pursue it! Be intentional about your future and let life happen FOR you and not TO you.

Gold!

Amazing! Tons of different life hacks that can easily be implemented. I plan on buying a copy of this book to read in the near future. I would recommend it to anyone!

I've given this book to the people I love most.

As a coach and young woman, this book changed everything for me. I highly recommend it to everyone.

Future me

Your past is not who you are, this guides you to change you and become a better future you.

Eye Opening

This is the kind of book that while you're reading it you're like " hmm, that makes sense....oh, so that's what's going on...oh ok, that's a fresh perspective and how to look at this" and on and on

Breakthrough Book! 🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Thanks veey much Ben for this book. I’ve finished listening to it today and if feels like I want to have a hard copy of this! Definitely one of the bests books of our time today! I will go back, re listen and re read this book whenever I want to ne reminded how fluid and ever changing my personality is! 😊 God bless you Ben and your family. Continue being and instrument of inspiration and Change!

Ben is Brilliant

Personality Isn’t Permanent is a book everyone should read. We can all become the person we want to be following Ben’s advice.