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Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life

Gretchen Rubin on Expectations, Habits and Happiness

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life

Erik Fisher

Business, Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.5877 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week I’m excited to re-release this conversation with Gretchen Rubin. At the time of this original recording Gretchen was promoting her then new book The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better. I recently interviewed Gretchen again for a forthcoming book and that conversation will be released soon. However, speaking to her reminded me of how insightful and helpful this talk was. In the Four Tendencies, Gretchen breaks down setting and meeting inner and outer expectations and creating good habits to have greater happiness. I really enjoyed this talk and wanted to share it with everyone in the event that you missed it the first time and get you excited for our new conversation that I will be posting in the coming weeks. 

Gretchen Rubin is the author of several books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, Better Than Before, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home. In addition to writing Gretchen also has a very popular podcast, ‘Happier with Gretchen Rubin’ that she hosts alongside her sister.

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Thank you. Beyond. Square, meet you there. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To Do List.

1:29.8

I am your host, Eric Fisher, and this is the show where I talk to the people behind the productivity.

1:34.8

This week I'm excited to re-release a conversation I had with Gretchen Rubin.

1:39.2

She is the author of several books, including The Blockbuster New York Times bestsellers,

1:44.0

Better Than Before, better than before,

1:45.1

The Happiness Project, and Happier at Home.

1:48.6

She's also host of the very popular podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, that she does with

1:54.1

her sister.

1:55.0

In this conversation, Gretchen and I talk about her new book at the time, The Four Tendencies,

2:00.5

the indispensable personality profiles

2:02.7

that reveal how to make your life better, and other people's lives better, too. And the reason

2:07.5

that I wanted to re-release and revisit this conversation with Gretchen is because I just had another

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