458: Tendencies, Habits & Change with Gretchen Rubin
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 7 April 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Tendencies, Habits & Change
with Gretchen Rubin
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Every few months a new productivity book hits the shelves, and of course, I read it. I'm a sucker for personal growth hacks. Do I need to fix my morning routine? What about a gratitude journal? Should I drink lemon water or celery juice in the morning? I joke that I'm a walking cliche - but that doesn't change my behavior.
The reality is that personal growth is, well, personal. What works for me might not work for you. Your organizational system, your calendar or filing system that changed your life might do nothing to help me get things done. One this week's podcast, you'll meet returning guest and ultra-practical self help author, Gretchen Rubin.
Listen & Learn:
- What you can learn about envy
- Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation
- How to figure out what you really want
- Thoughts on work, life, family, and friend balance
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Gretchen is a speaker, podcasterm, and the author of The Happiness Project, Happier at Home, Better Than Before, The Four Tendencies, and Outer Order, Inner Calm.
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| 0:00.0 | If you ever have this experience where you have a big project or a deadline, you have |
| 0:07.4 | something you just need to get done this week. |
| 0:10.6 | And you seem to do everything but that project, right? |
| 0:13.8 | You clear out your inbox, you organize your desk, you do a bunch of, quote unquote, research, |
| 0:18.2 | which basically means trolling Google for hours and hours. |
| 0:21.9 | And then somewhere around Thursday afternoon or Friday morning, you just start working, |
| 0:26.7 | working, working, working, working. |
| 0:28.2 | Of course, you meet the deadline because you have to meet the deadline. |
| 0:32.3 | And maybe you're even praised for getting the project done. |
| 0:35.1 | Maybe the project even goes well. |
| 0:36.4 | The problem with it is like you're miserable, right? |
| 0:38.2 | At least I am. |
| 0:39.2 | I get lots of things done, but I usually follow that same pattern, hesitate, hesitate, procrastinate, |
| 0:46.0 | divert my attention, and then suddenly work, work, work. |
| 0:48.6 | And it's, it's so unpleasant. |
| 0:50.1 | I wish I could get around it. |
| 0:51.5 | I've been doing this for my entire life and it seems totally unavoidable. |
| 0:55.2 | I would like to get better at structuring things so that things can roll out in a more |
| 1:00.0 | pleasant fashion. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm sure we all would. |
| 1:02.0 | And that's why I've brought on Gretchen Rubin. |
| 1:04.1 | She's a recurring guest in the 450-plus episodes we've done. |
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