MindCraft Challenge #25
People can change their personality traits by choosing and completing actions that stretch them toward desired personality change. Nathan Hudson and his colleagues demonstrated this in a study where people could choose actions that shifted them toward extraversion (E), agreeableness (A), conscientiousness (C), emotional stability (S), or openness to experience (O).
Challenge: I've created a web app where you can randomly generate your next challenge. Try these challenges for a week and see if your personality starts to move in the direction of the tasks. Hudson’s original study took place over 15 weeks. We don't have 15 weeks, so you might have to engage in actions more frequently than the one Hudson asked of his students per week. (You can find a copy of the list of 250 tasks on LearningHub under today's class.)
https://www.cognopod.com/sketch/COFC/
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250 tasks to change personality
https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000221
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