From the author Olga Khazan, 'For years, my husband, Rich, and I had gingerly walked the prime meridian between wanting and not wanting kids, usually leaning toward the “no” side. Having a baby had seemed unaffordable and impossible. On days when I finished work at 8 p.m., the thought of procreating made me laugh, then shudder. . ."
Want to Change Your Personality? Have a Baby.
I knew that becoming a parent would change me—but I had no idea how
READ MORE > Recently, though, I’d begun to reconsider. I was in the midst of an admittedly strange-sounding project: I was spending a year trying to change my personality.
According to a scientific personality test I’d taken, I scored sky-high on neuroticism, a trait associated with anxiety and depression, and low on agreeableness and extroversion. I lived in a constant, clenched state of dread, and it was poisoning my life. My therapist had stopped laughing at my jokes. . .
[. . .] But I had read some scientific research suggesting that you can change your personality by behaving like the kind of person you wish you were. . .
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