Gretchen Rubin, THE FOUR TENDENCIES: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Zibby speaks to New York Times bestselling author and one of today’s most influential observers of happiness and human nature, Gretchen Rubin, about her latest groundbreaking book, The Four Tendencies, which analyzes four personality types based on how we respond to expectations: upholders, questioners, obligers, and rebels. Gretchen and Zibby examine the four tendencies as they relate to parenting and relationships, and Gretchen offers the best advice on managing all types (mainly the rebels!). Take the quiz now at gretchenrubin.com/fourtendencies to find out which one you are!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
| 0:23.5 | You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com. |
| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
| 0:31.8 | That's at Zibbymag.com. |
| 0:33.1 | We have classes at Zippy Classes.com. |
| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of |
| 0:47.9 | our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
| 0:56.1 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy it. Gretchen Rubin is the author of many, many bucks, |
| 1:06.2 | including the Happiness Project, Happier at Home, and The Four the four tendencies. The subtitle of that is |
| 1:12.8 | the indispensable personality profiles that reveal how to make your life better and other people's |
| 1:18.3 | lives better too. Her latest book is Life in Five Senses, How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of |
| 1:24.5 | My Head and Into the World. She recently went to Zubis Bookshop to sign stock, |
| 1:29.0 | which means signed copies of books. So if you are looking for a signed copy of a Gretchen |
| 1:32.9 | Rubin book book book, you can head over to Zivis Bookshop in Santa Monica or order online at zibisbukshop.com. |
| 1:40.5 | Anyway, so this episode is kind of funny because I recorded it in July of 2022. |
| 1:47.2 | But I am just releasing it now because it got stuck on one of my computers and I couldn't |
| 1:52.1 | figure out my password. |
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