Asking the One Simple Question that Can Transform Your Life with Gretchen Rubin
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Gretchen is the author of several blockbuster bestsellers, like The Happiness Project, and co-hosts the awardwinning podcast Happier. Her new book, The Four Tendencies, was an instant New York Times bestseller. It explores a personality framework that can transform our lives.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. People all have different tendencies; it's like one's personality.
2. It's important to know your tendencies so that you can adjust whatever is not working for you.
3. Understanding a person's tendencies will help you communicate better with that person.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom! Shake the room fire nation! JLD here and welcome to episode 1900 of EO Fire! We're |
| 0:11.1 | right-challet with entrepreneurs on Fire 7 days a week. For over five years now, check |
| 0:17.0 | out our free podcasting course if you want to create, grow, monetize your podcast free |
| 0:21.1 | podcast course.com. And now we're chatting with one of my favorite guests. This is her third |
| 0:27.9 | time on the show. Gretchen Rubin. Gretchen, are you prepared to ignite? Absolutely! Yes, once again. |
| 0:37.3 | And I have to say thank you for giving me the 1900 slot. That is such a gigantic milestone |
| 0:43.9 | for a podcaster. And I am thrilled to be there with you as the odometer crosses a big number. |
| 0:50.1 | And it wasn't random. I saved the spot for you. I've been putting people after you waiting |
| 0:54.9 | to listen to this to happen. So I'm ecstatic and Fire Nation Gretchen. She's the author of several |
| 1:01.2 | blockbuster bestsellers like the Happiness Project. She co-hosts a phenomenal award-winning |
| 1:06.7 | podcast called Happier. In her new book, The Four Tendencies was an instance near Times |
| 1:14.9 | Best Seller. It explores a personality framework that can, and I'm not sure she'll use the word, |
| 1:20.0 | but she will transform our lives. So Gretchen, take a minute, fill in some gaps from that |
| 1:25.3 | intro and give us a little glimpse of your personal life. Well, I'm a writer, a podcaster. |
| 1:30.6 | I have a daily blog, and I do a lot of speaking. But my big subject is human nature. So I'm |
| 1:37.1 | always spending my time trying to figure out, you know, why are we the way we are? How can |
| 1:41.5 | we change? If we want to change, how can we help other people change? If we wish they |
| 1:45.5 | would change, which is maybe more fun to think about. So I'm just sort of constantly reading |
| 1:50.9 | things or talking to people or thinking about, like, what's up with people? What is up with |
| 1:56.6 | people? What's up with people? What's up with me? What's up with people? It sounds like |
| 2:02.0 | it'd be the most obvious thing. But, you know, ever since I started writing, I've been |
| 2:07.3 | looking at one angle or another, a human nature, and it's just the more I study at the |
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