032: Habits: The Four Tendencies with Gretchen Rubin
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Author and speaker, Gretchen Rubin discusses how we can live happier lives by creating good habits through knowing ourselves. We often think it's too difficult not only to create good habits, but to keep up with them as well. By using Gretchen's quiz on The Four Tendencies and being aware of loopholes you may use, you'll be able to cultivate systems and habits that work for you and your lifestyle.
What's In This Episode:
• Learn the Four Tendencies Framework: Figure out if you're an Upholder, Questioner, Obliger or Rebel so that you can learn how to best create good habits
• Discover ten different loopholes you may be using to get out of your good habits.
• Hear the Story of the Growing Heap - How 'one coin' can affect your consistency of good or bad habits.
• How to create habits for tasks that aren't always easy or black and white.
• One action item from Gretchen that you can do today to successfully create YOUR good habits.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.2 | To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:20.1 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:21.9 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 32. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm really, really excited about today's show because we have an amazing guest on the show. |
| 0:34.3 | But before I share anything about our guest, I would like to give a quick word from our |
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| 0:45.7 | if you're a freelancer or entrepreneur. I'll be sharing more about them later on in this episode, |
| 0:51.5 | but for now I want to jump in and introduce you to Gretchen Rubin. |
| 0:56.1 | Gretchen is our guest today, and she is one of the most influential and thought-provoking writers |
| 1:01.1 | on the subjects of happiness and human nature. She has an enormous readership, both in print |
| 1:06.6 | and online, and her books have sold almost 3 million copies worldwide in more than 30 languages. |
| 1:13.1 | Her books include the Blockbuster New York Times bestseller, better than before, and The Happiness |
| 1:18.1 | Project. And she has a new book coming out soon all about habits and what she calls the four |
| 1:23.4 | tendencies, which is what we're going to be talking about today. So let's get started. |
| 1:29.2 | Gretchen, thank you so much for coming on the show. |
| 1:31.6 | Oh, I'm so happy to be talking to you today. |
| 1:33.5 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:34.6 | Of course, yes. |
| 1:35.7 | And I would love for you to share with my listeners a little bit about your story. |
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