Mark Manson

Even Alport, I mean, like this lineage that we're tracing that ends up becoming personality psychology, most of the personality psychologists from the 80s and 90s also landed on the conclusion that you couldn't change these, right?

So it's like we're consistently landing on this idea of like, nope, this is who you are.

Good luck.

Right, right.

So, I mean, it raises the point, like, what are we even doing this episode for?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, if William James says we can't change, if Freud says we can't change, if Gordon Alport and the personality psychologist concluded that we can't change, like, what the hell are we doing a six hour change episode on, Drew?

Are we crazy?

Are we making things up?

No, we're not making things up.

It turns out there's more to this story and there's more to us than simply our personality traits.

Interesting, like a center of gravity that you get pulled back to.

So interestingly, the one trait that has flip-flopped quite a bit throughout my life is introversion, extroversion.

And it took me a long time to recognize this pattern.

So when I was very young, I always tested as a pretty strong introvert.

And then once I...

got to university and started drinking and partying and meeting girls, I would always test as an extrovert.

But that's because partying was like a big part of my life and I was dating a lot.