Brian R. Little - Me, Myself and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being

Brian R. Little is a pioneer in the study of human personality and well being
Professor Little has been a major innovator in the field of personality assessment and motivation and is the 2020 winner of the Henry A. Murray Award for distinguished research on the study of lives awarded by the Association for Research in Personality. He pioneered the development of “personal projects analysis” as a way of looking at the coherence of personality. His research has shown that human well-doing is enhanced by the sustainable pursuit of core projects in our lives.
Professor Brian R. Little received his early education in British Columbia and his Ph.D. in personality psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Commonwealth Scholar at Oxford and an Inaugural Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He has received major awards for his teaching at Carleton, McGill and Harvard Universities. For three consecutive years (2002-2004) he was elected a Favorite Professor by the graduating classes at Harvard.
From 2010 to 2021, he was a Research Professor in Psychology at Cambridge University and developed and taught a popular course on Personality and Well-Being for the Executive MBA program at the Cambridge Judge Business School. He is currently a Senior Fellow in Person-Analytics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Professor Little believes strongly in making the fruits of his research available to the general public. His Me, Myself and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being was an Amazon best seller and his TED talk “Who Are You, Really?” has been viewed on KZbin and TED platforms over 20 million times. He has delivered over 800 presentations on personality and well-being to diverse audiences around the world. He was one of the co-developers of Ray Dalio’s Principles YOU, a free personality assessment device launched in April, 2021.
Brian’s unique approach to the science of personality appears in three books:Personal Projects Pursuit: Goals, Action and Human Flourishing, Me, Myself and Us: The Science of Personality

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Just found you today and immediately started watching everything I could find. I enjoy the way you engage and just love listening to your thoughts. Thank you. I’d love to meet you someday!! On the bucket list for sure!! ❤❤❤

[@patricijag3090]

great video, even greater professor! Much respect for him

[@aszak8654]

So impressed by your work. A huge fan

[@drjulierasmussen]

Very interesting information. I found you through a Mel Robbins video. I've ordered two of your books from Amazon tonight to read more about your research. Thank you very much!

[@eurekal1903]

Well organized, as well as the movie Inside-Out

[@friendsofvinny]

Brian Little was one of my worst instructors when I as an undergrad at Harvard. I am not sure if the teaching awards he says he got was accurate. I had to take a methods in research course and Brian always added his extra bit of verbosity to make the material more tedious than it needed to be. I'm still upset that he was my instructor -- it should have been a more quantitatively oriented course, and he was unsuited to teach it.