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Me, But Better

By: Olga Khazan
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Is it really possible to change your entire personality in a year? An award-winning journalist experiments with her own personality to find out—and reveals the science behind lasting change.

Olga Khazan was spiraling toward an existential crisis. Though she treasured her loving relationship and dream job, her neurotic personality often left her snatching dissatisfaction from the jaws of happiness. Lately, her brittle disposition felt ready to shatter under the weight of just one more thing—but could she really change her entire personality?

Personality consists of five sliding-scale traits: extroversion (how sociable you are), conscientiousness (how self-disciplined you are), agreeableness (how empathetic you are), openness (how receptive you are to new things), and neuroticism (how anxious you are). Research shows you can alter these traits by acting like the kind of person you’d like to be. In Me, But Better, Olga embarks on a year-long experiment to see if it’s possible to start “radiating joy” instead of dwelling in dread—trying everything from Zip-Zap-Zopping toward extroversion in improv to surfing her way to openness, even if she spends more time wiping out than hanging ten.

Sharply witty and deeply fascinating, Me, But Better candidly explores what it means to live a fulfilling life, and how to keep growing, no matter how uncomfortable it feels. Emotions Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Happiness Witty Sports
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Neuroscience studies are distilled into practical tips to improve personality aspects.

The author gives several examples from her own life.

Practical advice for strivers

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I appreciated the smart and revealing memoir documenting the author's attempt to change some life long personality traits.

Honest and Self reflective self improvement memoir

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Me only Better

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I found this book easy to listen to and very relatable for me. I was impressed by the boldness the author took in trying to change her personality and it gave me hope about my strong introversion.

Relatable

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It was really interesting to hear Olga share her journey through personality change in the context of the science as well as her own life. It was good but I felt like I was either missing more experts or deeper personal reflection. I do think there’s definitely something worthwhile here. Maybe more time with Mary Roach or Mike Birbiglia would take this pretty good personality driven memoir somewhere very special.

The more specific, the more relatable

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