Olga Khazan

18 hours 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.

6 days 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.

6 days 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.

1 week 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!The more I talk about my book, the more I think “You Have It in You” could have been an alternate title for it.

3 weeks 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!As I’ve been promoting my book on personality change, I’ve been getting one question over and over: Why is personality important? That is, why should you want to change one or more of you personality traits?