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Olga Khazan

Writer @theatlantic with a new book about personality change: https://t.co/OoPP2cxbuj Email [email protected] Newsletter: https://t.co/9ldi1lk4CB

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  • 4 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | David Morgan |Olga Khazan |Shannon Sauer-Zavala

    The Emmy Award-winning "CBS News Sunday Morning" is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. "Sunday Morning" also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.)  Hosted by Jane Pauley COVER STORY: "Sunday Morning" interviews Elon MuskDavid Pogue reports.

  • 1 month ago | olgakhazan.substack.com | Olga Khazan

    ME, BUT BETTER, my book about personality change, is out now. If you haven’t yet, please pick up your copy today. And if you’ve read the book, it would mean the world to me if you could leave an Amazon review. Thank you!Anxious people who like to google their anxieties will often come across a particularly noxious type of clickbait: This Simple Trick Works Better Than Klonopin for Anxiety, the headline will promise. Click on the link and … surprise! It’s meditation. It’s always meditation.

  • 1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Olga Khazan

    When Austin Estes took his sick infant son to urgent care, he struggled to change his diaper in an exam room not equipped with a changing table. “Oh, if only Mom was here,” the nurse said. Estes, an education-policy consultant in Washington, D.C., wondered why she’d think his wife would better handle an impossible diaper change. Justin Rauzon, a project director in Los Angeles, told me he listed himself as the primary contact on the intake paperwork at his child’s pediatrician’s office.

  • 1 month ago | wsj.com | Olga Khazan

    My success was fueled by hard work and planning—not by my endless fear about outcomes. I recently took a personality test and decided I needed to change some things; some aspects of my personality seemed to be responsible for making me unhappy. A high level of neurotic anxiety was one of them. To help adopt a new mindset, I took intensive meditation class; the “homework” involved meditating for 45 minutes a day.

  • 1 month ago | fnlondon.com | Olga Khazan

    I Thought I Needed Anxiety for My Job. I Was Wrong. My success was fueled by hard work and planning—not by my endless fear about outcomes. Published May 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM ET I recently took a personality test and decided I needed to change some things; some aspects of my personality seemed to be responsible for making me unhappy. A high level of neurotic anxiety was one of them. To help adopt a new mindset, I took intensive meditation class; the “homework” involved meditating for 45 minutes a day.

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Olga Khazan ME, BUT BETTER
Olga Khazan ME, BUT BETTER @olgakhazan
3 Jun 25

Cigna: How was your visit with that anesthesiologist? Me: Uh fine, I was unconscious Cigna: Awesommmme. Here's a bill for $1,300 🙂

Olga Khazan ME, BUT BETTER
Olga Khazan ME, BUT BETTER @olgakhazan
23 May 25

just heartbreaking https://t.co/7LplpIdF1Z

Olga Khazan ME, BUT BETTER
Olga Khazan ME, BUT BETTER @olgakhazan
22 May 25

RT @xavierbonilla87: I am pleased to share the conversation I had with @olgakhazan about whether we can change our #personality or not. Hop…