#792 Can Personalities Change? - Olga Khazan

#792 Can Personalities Change? - Olga Khazan

Olga Khazan is an author and staff writer for The Atlantic. Today she talks about the experiments she undertook to change her own personality traits over the course of a year, which inspired her new book, Me, But Better. She also shares her good and bad experiences with anxiety--and why she has an attachment to the condition.

More about Olga Khazan:

Her Substack writing: https://olgakhazan.substack.com/

Her IG. www.Instagram.com/olganator

Her book/website: www.OlgaKhazan.com


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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1280-cory-doctorow-why-everything-got-worse-and-what/id1344999619?i=1000747830030

And

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1238-ken-burns-what-if-the-american-revolution-isnt-over/id1344999619?i=1000736232557


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