A revolutionary science-based guide to shifting your personality traits to create the life you want.

THE PERSONALITY EDIT
by Shannon Sauer-Zavala
New Harbinger, December 2027
(via Liza Dawson Associates)

Most of us view our personalities as unchanging, but in reality, our personality traits are not etched in stone. Our personalities shift as we age and we don’t have to be passive passengers along for the ride—in fact, you can change your traits, imagine the life you want, and purposefully develop the characteristics you need to be successful.

In THE PERSONALITY EDIT, Dr. Shannon Sauer-Zavala shares science-based strategies that have been proven in clinical settings throughout the world to enhance or evolve the traits that can better serve you. This book is for you if:

• You’ve wished you could form more and deeper friendships but believed you’re not a warm enough person.
• You’ve told yourself that you couldn’t possibly organize your home and your finances because you don’t have the discipline to do it.
• You’ve ever thought you’d never move into a leadership position because you’re not outgoing enough.

Dr. Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Ph.D., is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years of experience working with people struggling with anxiety, depression, and personality disorders. She is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Kentucky, where she develops new treatments for stubborn mental health conditions and tests them in rigorous clinical trials. Her treatment program, Compass, has been clinically shown to stimulate 20 years’ worth of personality change in less than 20 weeks. Her research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Canadian Institute of Health Research, and the Templeton Foundation. Over the past ten years, she has received tens of millions of dollars in grant funding to support her mental health treatment research. Dr. Sauer-Zavala has translated her provocative work on intentional personality change to popular audiences through a TEDx talk in 2024 and an interview segment on CBS Sunday Morning in 2025. The tools included in THE PERSONALITY EDIT have been featured in global media, the Washington Post, Medium, Psychology Today, VeryWell Mind, WebMD, National Public Radio, and many more media outlets.