Personality Isn't Permanent by Benjamin Hardy

Author:Benjamin Hardy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

Often, it is incredibly small and simple acts that can have the biggest impact on our lives. For instance, Rich Beverage was a key empathetic witness in my life, someone who encouraged me when I was down. At nineteen years old, I had given up on my goal of serving a church mission. Rich, a former church leader, reached out to me and took me out to lunch a few times. It was a small gesture, but incredibly impactful. He helped me realize that my mistakes and circumstances shouldn’t stop me from taking action on my future. His encouragement helped me courageously make the decision I’d almost lost hope in.

In a 2019 interview, TV personality Lisa Ling explained the importance of having a team of people around her to do the work she does. She hosts the CNN show This Is Life, which is radically raw and open. Ling often interviews people with profound emotional pain and struggles. For example, she once interviewed a seventeen-year-old girl who was sold into commercial sex exploitation at age eleven. During the interview, this girl said that at that age she would regularly call police officers, begging them to arrest her so she could have a safe place to sleep.

This is just one example of countless, painfully real conversations Ling has. The aftermath, as was the case with the seventeen-year-old girl, is that Ling and her small team are left sobbing and crying together, due to the overwhelming reality of the interviews and stories. As Ling recalled:

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