Anne Bogel is an author, podcast host, avid reader and personality assessment expert. That’s what you’ll see when you read her new book, How Seeing the World Through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything. In this interview, Eric and Anne cover a lot of ground; from book recommendations to the value and application of personality tests. If you are at all interested in personal growth, this episode will excite and inspire you to use valid personality tests as a tool to fuel that endeavor. If you’ve written off personality tests in the past, we encourage you to revisit the topic with an open mind as you listen to this episode. You may think differently 45 minutes from now.
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In This Interview, Anne Bogel and I Discuss…
- Her book, Reading People: How Seeing the World Through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything
- Recent fiction books that she’s read that she loved
- How we all have pain during the course of our lives
- The joy of reading literary fiction
- What is personality?
- The coping strategies we learn vs fundamental personality changes
- How our mind is inclined to work
- The way we see things
- Taking a personality test and answering questions based on how we want to be vs how we really are
- That if you don’t know how you’re really like, you can’t move forward and grow as a person
- Common thoughts, feelings and behavior = our personality type
- Our character and our behavior are two things we can impact and change within ourselves with a lot of effort
- Personality tests not being a limiting thing
- Putting your strengths to work for you
- Putting effort towards things we can change vs things we can’t change
- I’m the kind of person who _____ being a powerful phrase
- Fixed vs Growth mindset
- Highly sensitive people
- The emotional bank account
- Introverts vs Extroverts
- What you do consistently over time matters
- the 5:1 ratio when it comes to positive and negative experiences
- The Enneagram – https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/
Emma says
Hello I can’t find the link to the personality test that mas mentioned. Great episode by the way!
Alex says
I’m also looking for the link but can’t seem to find it….
Eric Zimmer says
I added it to the show notes above. Thanks for asking 🙂
Eric Zimmer says
I added it to the show notes above. Thanks for asking 🙂
Jody Ellsworth says
Was there another test link for highly sensitive people?
Eric Zimmer says
Hi Jody…sorry this took so long to reply. You can go here: https://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-test/