07: Understanding your Personality

07: Understanding your Personality

Everybody loves a personality quiz, but most of what the culture teaches about personality is wrong. Dr. Lisle says astrology is worthless, Jung was off, and Skinner was off, and the actual science was quietly settled at the University of Minnesota in 1985. Your personality is almost entirely genetic, and that one fact rewrites everything people believe about relationships, arranged marriages, self-improvement, and why the same kinds of people keep getting exploited.

In this episode, Dr. Lisle walks through the Big Five plus one (OCEAN plus intelligence), explains why these traits map onto bell curves in both humans and animals, and introduces two of his signature frameworks: the esteem dynamic and the sucker triad. He covers why opposites only attract on one single dimension, why Steve Jobs was an extreme on every trait, and why highly agreeable, conscientious, intelligent people end up carrying everyone else's burdens.

Key question covered: Where do personality differences really come from, and why can't you change yours through experience or therapy?

Beat Your Genes is co-hosted by evolutionary psychologist Dr. Doug Lisle, PhD and Dr. Nathan Gershfeld, DC.

New episodes every other week.

YouTube: youtube.com/@BeatYourGenes

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392: The Friend Zone: What Her Brain Is Calculating

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391: Part 3 - Dr. Lisle's New Book: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret of Life Interview Part 2 of 3

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390: Part 2 -  Dr. Lisle's New Book: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret of Life Interview Part 2 of 3

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389: Dr. Lisle's New Book: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret of Life Interview Part 1 of 3

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387: The Black Sheep of a Genius Family

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She grew up in a family of surgeons, a Google computer scientist, and a NASA astrophysicist, and she became a flight attendant who wanted to be a housewife. Now her genius-level family calls her the f...

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386: How to Handle Bad Advice Without a Fight

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