Personality Isn't Permanent Quotes

“Becoming psychologically flexible is key to personal transformation, not overattaching to your current identity or perspectives. Becoming insatiably committed to a future purpose and embracing emotions rather than avoiding them is how radical change occurs.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“You are not a single and narrow “type” of person. In different situations and around different people, you are different. Your personality is dynamic, flexible, and contextual. Moreover, your personality changes throughout your life, far more than you can presently imagine.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“A mistake repeated more than once is a decision. —Paulo Coelho”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Without a meaningful goal, attempting changes lacks meaning, requires unsustainable willpower, and ultimately leads to failure.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Few people intentionally define and shape their identity, based on who they plan to be, and then become that person.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Purpose trumps personality. Without a deep sense of purpose, your personality will be based on avoiding pain and pursuing pleasure, which is an animalistic and low-level mode of operating. This is the common view and approach to personality for most. However, when you’re driven by purpose, you’ll be highly flexible and you’ll make decisions irrespective of pain and pleasure to create and become what you want.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said, “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“People use the past as the excuse to remain stuck in habits and attitudes that keep them from growing.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Robert Brault said, “We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Pearson’s Law states, “When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“As Harvard psychologist Dr. Ellen Langer explains, 'If there are meaningful choices, there is uncertainty. If there is no choice, there is no uncertainty.' If you're unwilling to face and interact with uncertainty, then you've greatly limited who you are and what you've become. You've limited your ability to make choices, because all choices involve uncertainty and risk.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Highly-quality relationships are transformational, not transactional. Often, the transformation is unpredictable and unexpected, as collaboration is a creative act.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Your purpose isn't something you discover, but something you ultimately choose yourself. Stop looking for it and make the choice, then allow that choice to transform you.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“When someone proactively labels themselves an "introvert" or even an "extrovert," they've officially made themself "dumber"--unless for some reason one of those labels will enable them to achieve a particular goal.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Labels can serve goals, but goals should never serve labels. When a goal serves a label, you've made the label your ultimate reality, and you've created a life to prove or support that label. You see this when someone says, "I'm pursuing this because I'm an extrovert." This form of goal-setting occurs when you base your goals on your current persona rather than setting goals that expand upon and change who you are.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Choosing one's own way is a primary purpose of our lives. Yet there is a fear in making choices, because choices have consequences. As a result, people avoid making decisions, fail to choose their own way, and limit their capacity for growth, learning, and change.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“What currently prevents your dreams from becoming reality is buried trauma keeping you trapped in your past, shutting down your confidence and imagination. Sure, trauma occurs as major, life-altering events. But more often, “trauma” is planted in minor incidents and conversations that limit your view of who you are and what you can do, creating a fixed mindset.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Like passion, motivation isn’t something to be discovered, but to be created”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Personality is not stable but changes regardless of whether you’re purposeful about that change or not.”
― Benjamin Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“This is how successful people live: They become who they want to be by orienting their life toward their goals, not as a repeat of the past; by acting bravely as their future selves, not by perpetuating who they formerly were.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“In order to become a new person, you must have a new goal— a purpose worth pursuing. Your goal is the reason you develop new attributes and skills, and have curated transformational experiences. Without a meaningful goal, attempting change lacks meaning, requires unsustainable willpower, and ultimately leads to failure.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“That’s the truth of personality. It’s not innate but trained. It can and does change. It can and should be chosen and designed. Choosing one’s own way is a primary purpose of our lives. Yet there is a fear in making choices, because choices have consequences. As a result, people avoid making decisions, fail to choose their own way, and limit their capacity for growth, learning, and change.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“You become who you choose to be. Yet, fully choosing who you are and will become is rare. We’ve been brainwashed into believing we don’t have such a choice. Facing the responsibility and freedom of choosing your own way is, indeed, scary.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“The two most crucial factors influencing your ability to make choices are your social and cultural environments, as well as your emotional development as a person. The more emotionally evolved you become, the less defined you’ll be by your past and the less constrained you’ll be by your circumstances.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“It’s easier to hold to your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold to them 98 percent of the time.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Distinguish your present self from your future self, they aren't the same person. Your future self should direct your current identity more”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Focus on growth, not on status.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Personality—like passion, inspiration, motivation, and confidence—is a by-product of your decisions in life.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“We make countless choices in life, some large and some seemingly small. Looking back, we can see what a great difference some of our choices made in our lives. We make better choices and decisions if we look at the alternatives and ponder where they will lead. . . . Our present and our future will be happier if we are always conscious of the future. . . . “Where will this lead?” is also important in choosing how we label or think of ourselves. . . . Don’t choose to label yourselves or think of yourselves in terms that put a limit on a goal for which you might strive.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story