What is "Personality"?

11/10/22 • 17 min

It seems that a lot of us build a personality out of a random comment here or a situation in childhood or our place in the family unit. Let’s talk about personality today!

In this episode you’ll be invited to:

Explore how your personality developed
Notice how you tell the story of your personality
Decide what parts of your personality best serve your future

Resources mentioned:

Big Five personality traits (Wikipedia)
“Introduction to Personality Psychology” (Society for Personality and Social Psychology on YouTube)
“The Science of Personality” (YouTube interview between Brian Little & Adam Grant)

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It seems that a lot of us build a personality out of a random comment here or a situation in childhood or our place in the family unit. Let’s talk about personality today!

In this episode you’ll be invited to:

Explore how your personality developed
Notice how you tell the story of your personality
Decide what parts of your personality best serve your future

Resources mentioned:

Big Five personality traits (Wikipedia)
“Introduction to Personality Psychology” (Society for Personality and Social Psychology on YouTube)
“The Science of Personality” (YouTube interview between Brian Little & Adam Grant)

Free & awesome mini-class! "3 Ways to Reduce Stress TODAY"

Visit the Lisa Schwaller Coaching Website to learn more, sign up for my email list, or get links to follow me around the internet.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

The Power of Your Strengths (CliftonStrengths)

Oh, I love personality frameworks! They’re such a great way to have conversations around why people do what they do. And the better we understand ourselves and others, we can evaporate stress and have so much more fun with our lives.

In this episode you’ll learn:

How the CliftonStrengths assessment is different from other frameworks
How knowing your strengths themes can reduce stress and have more fun being uniquely you

Resources:

CliftonStrengths assessment (Gallup, formerly StrengthsFinder)
CliftonStrengths new podcast and the original “Theme Thursday” (SO GOOD!)
“The CliftonStrengths Report Says You’re Awesome! Now What?” (Lead Through Strengths podcast, 7 minutes)
“How to Interpret Your StrengthsFinder Results” (Coaching for Leaders podcast, 37 minutes)
“What To Do With Your StrengthsFinder Results” (Leadership Vision podcast, 19 minutes)

Free & awesome mini-class! "3 Ways to Reduce Stress TODAY"

Visit the Lisa Schwaller Coaching Website to learn more, sign up for my email list, or get links to follow me around the internet.

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Next Episode

Feels like falling in love...

What does it mean to “fall” “in” ‘love”? Today we’re talking about thoughts, feelings, and hormones, what a recipe!

In this episode you’ll learn:

The science of falling in love
“Falling in love” thinking
How “in love” can help you manage stress

Resources mentioned:

“36 Questions for Increasing Closeness” (Greater Good in Action, UC Berkeley)
“Love, Actually: The science behind lust, attraction, and companionship” (Harvard, 2017)
“A Psychologist on Why You Keep Falling for the Same Person” (The Latch, March 2022)
“Fooled Around and Fell in Love” (Elvin Bishop, YouTube)
“You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling” (Righteous Brothers, YouTube)

Free & awesome mini-class! "3 Ways to Reduce Stress TODAY"

Visit the Lisa Schwaller Coaching Website to learn more, sign up for my email list, or get links to follow me around the internet.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.