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Your Personality Is Not Fixed | Olga Khazan

2025/5/24
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Ryan Holiday: 我一直很钦佩那些努力改进自己的人,并试图在自己的生活中效仿。对我来说,斯多葛主义就是关于变得更好,就像苏格拉底一样,试图克服自己的缺点和无知。重要的是能承受什么,而不是外表如何。人们会仰慕那些在他们追求的道路上走得更远的人。我钦佩那些阅读、思考并努力变得更好的人,他们不会评判他人的旅程,而是真诚地鼓励他人。我钦佩的人对他们会阅读什么书籍持开放态度。我对 Olga Kazan 的《我,但更好》这本书感到兴奋,因为它探讨了如何爱自己,同时也渴望变得更好。我们讨论了如何做到这一点,是否应该假装直到成功,以及我们对个性和命运有多少控制权。有些作家有能力将科学或行为改变的知识转化为大众可以理解且感兴趣的作品。成为父母会促使人们想要变得更好。 Olga Khazan: 研究表明,人们确实会改变,而且如果他们努力改变,改变的速度会更快。人们倾向于认为其他人不会改变,但自己却一直在努力改变和进步。性格特质在很大程度上决定了我们的人生结果,但我们也可以改变自己的内在,从而取得更大的成就。重要的是你是否花大量时间写作,或者你是否去跑步了。即使我仍然认为自己是精神病患者,但人们还是喜欢我的友善行为。每个人都有不好的想法,但好人只是不付诸行动。我决定是否要孩子时,也遇到了同样的问题,我不知道自己是否能成为一个母亲,因为我从未做过母亲。我知道如何学习如何做出现的新难题。我是一个有能力做新事情的人。我发现最甜蜜的点是努力奋斗,知道自己有能力努力,然后最终放手,意识到自己无法完全控制结果。

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Can people actually change or are we just stuck with who we are? In this episode, author and journalist Olga Khazan** **joins Ryan to unpack the age-old debate: are personality traits fixed or can we reshape them over time? Olga shares what happened when she tried to change her own personality over the course of a year and what science says about whether that’s even possible.

Olga Khazan is a staff writer at *The Atlantic and author of Me, But Better). *You can follow Olga on Instagram and X @Olganator) and read more of her work on Substack: https://olgakhazan.substack.com/)

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