Successful How to Change Yourself Completely
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Jan 28, 2026 
Jordan Peterson, clinical psychologist and professor known for lectures on personality and meaning, explores micro-routines that rebuild competence. He outlines value hierarchies, views emotions as goal-directed subroutines, and contrasts rigid plans with confronting obstacles. He reframes suffering, dominance hierarchies, and the hero myth as pathways to transformation.
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Practice Missing Micro-Routines
- If your personality lacks certain micro-routines, practice and rehearse those small behaviors until they become automatic.
- Extending your behavioral range makes you more adaptable and reduces suffering from rigid traits.
Deliberately Practice Opposite Traits
- Place yourself on trait distributions and deliberately practice the opposite side to expand your capabilities.
- For example, disagreeable people can lift depression by doing nice acts and agreeable people should practice assertiveness.
Top Of The Personality Hierarchy Matters
- Your personality is a hierarchy of subroutines with an implicit ideal at the top that drives behavior and values.
- Losing that value-hierarchy leads to nihilism or submission to a tyrant, which has catastrophic social consequences.
