Is Your Personality Fixed, Or Can You Change Who You Are? | Invisibilia | NPR

The marshmallow test became the poster child for the idea that there are specific personality traits that are stable and consistent. And this drives Walter Mischel crazy. "That iconic story is upside-down wrong," Mischel says. "That your future is in a marshmallow. Because it isn't." • Read "Is Your Personality Fixed, Or Can You Change Who You Are?" at https://www.npr.org/sections/health-s... • Listen to: "The Personality Myth" at https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/i... Sound from freesound.org: https://freesound.org/people/senorsol... https://freesound.org/people/vladnegr... https://freesound.org/people/SunnySid... https://freesound.org/people/themfish... https://freesound.org/people/f4ngy/so... https://freesound.org/people/15050_Fr... https://freesound.org/people/15050_Fr... https://freesound.org/people/Geneviev... https://freesound.org/people/brooklyn... https://freesound.org/people/Zamazan/... https://freesound.org/people/AryaNotS... https://freesound.org/people/Inspecto... https://freesound.org/people/stereost... ------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE 🎙 NPR Podcasts:    / nprpodcasts   🫒 NPR Entertainment:    / nprentertainment   🗞️ NPR Daily News:    / nprdailynews   💰 Planet Money:    / planetmoney   🎵 NPR Music (Tiny Desk):    / nprmusic   🎷 Jazz Night in America:    / jazznightinamerica   🌐 NPR:    / npr   FOLLOW NPR ELSEWHERE   / npr     / npr     / npr   https://www.npr.org/