Gretchen Rubin | From the Vault
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Gretchen Rubin is a bestselling author and podcaster whose area of expertise is happiness and she joins me on the podcast to unpick how to navigate a path towards happiness.
This episode was recorded in December 2017 and I had time with Gretchen to discuss her book The Four Tendencies, which gives insight into four personality types based on how we react to internal and external expectations.
Not only is it an interesting way to understand oneself, it also offers valuable insight into how other people process the world.
In this conversation, @gretchenrubin and I discuss:
- Why she’s a ‘happiness bully’ but how that has helped her find her own happiness and help others find theirs.
- How we can better our personality by interrogating how we react to inner and outer expectations, as explored in her book The Four Tendencies.
- How to know if your tendency is one of a questioner, obliger, rebel or upholder.
- Why, when our basic needs are met, we can then explore what happiness means to us.
- How times of stress, change and anxiety can affect our happiness.
- Why 50% of our happiness is genetic (and what the other 50% is made of).
- How meeting Oprah impacted her and her work.
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