How I changed my personality in six weeks
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Key Points:
- Emerging psychological research suggests that core personality traits, once thought fixed by age 30, can be consciously changed through targeted interventions over a few months, rather than a lifetime.
- Laurie Clarke experimented with adjusting her high neuroticism, moderate agreeableness, and low extraversion by adopting activities like meditation, gratitude journaling, socializing, and cognitive reframing, based on the Big Five personality model.
- After six weeks, Clarke's self-assessment showed notable improvements: neuroticism dropped from the 83rd to 50th percentile, extraversion rose from the 30th to 50th, and agreeableness increased from the 50th to 70th percentile, while conscientiousness and openness remained stable.
