Science indicates we can modify our personalities
- sciart0
- Mar 20, 2025
- 1 min read
Excerpt: "When trying to explain people’s behavior, it’s often said “that’s just the way they are.”
But do we have to be “just the way we are?”
Science says our personalities are malleable. Our personalities are made up of five traits: openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion and neuroticism. What happens when we intentionally try to change these?
Olga Khazan writes about the year she spent doing that in her new book, “Me, But Better.” We talk to her about changing who we are and how that worked for her.
Want to get a beat on your personality? Try this test we talked about during the show."