The Next Big Idea

YOU, BUT BETTER: The Science and Promise of Personality Change

Can you change who you are? When reporter Olga Khazan decided she was tired of being a “high-strung misanthrope” (her words), she turned to science for answers. What she discovered about personality — and how to change it — might surprise you.
Host: Daniel Pink
Guest: Olga Khazan
Book: Me, But Better
This episode was recorded live at Politics and Prose on March 12th.
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The Next Big Idea is a weekly series of in-depth interviews with the world’s leading thinkers. Join hosts Rufus Griscom and Caleb Bissinger — along with our curators, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — for conversations that might just change the way you see the world. New episodes every Thursday.