Who Are You, Really?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality Audiobook (Free)

This fun, smart read for anyone wanting to better understand (and improve) themselves argues that personality is powered not by nature nor nurture-but instead by the projects we pursue, which ultimately shape the people we become.

Traditionally, scientists have emphasized what they call the first and second natures of personality-genes and lifestyle, respectively. But today the field of personality science has transferred well beyond the type vs. nurture controversy. In Who Are You, Really? Dr. Brian Little about Who Are You, Actually?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality presents a unique watch of how personality shapes our lives-and why this issues. Little makes the case for any third nature towards the human condition-the quest for personal tasks, idealistic dreams, and innovative ventures that form both people’s lives and their personalities. Little uncovers what character science has been discovering about the function of personal tasks, exposing how this new concept might help people better understand themselves and form their lives.

In this important work, Little argues that it’s essential to devote energy and assets to creative efforts in an extremely focused fashion, even if it requires away from other the different parts of our well-being. This will not mean that we cannot shift in one core project to another in the days of our lives. Actually, it is exactly that ability to flexibly build projects this is the ideal source of sustainability. Like learning to walk, forcing ourselves out of balance as we step may be the only manner in which we can progress. And it is the only path that individual flourishing can be enhanced.

The well-lived lifestyle is based on the sustainable pursuit of primary projects inside our lives. Eventually, Who Are You, Really? offers a deeply personal itinerary for exploring our personalities, our lives, as well as the human condition.