Gretchen Rubin | The Four Tendencies: Understanding What Drives You
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Gretchen Rubin is a New York Times best-selling author and podcaster who specialises on the subjects of habits and happiness. She joins me on this episode to talk about her new book The Four Tendencies:The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too).
In this episode we talk about the changes she made in her own life to be happier, what it's like being the poster girl for 'happiness', her podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, which has been downloaded more than 30 millions times and much more.
To take The Four Tendencies quiz, click here >> THE FOUR TENDENCIES QUESTIONNAIRE.
- The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun.
- Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life.
- Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life.
- 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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| 0:04.4 | You may have heard in the podcast last week that I took part in a chill test with dentist Anita Sandu. |
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| 1:05.0 | Hello! Hello and welcome to another episode of the Emma Gunn Show. |
| 1:08.0 | I am your host Emma Gunner |
| 1:10.0 | and joining me in this episode of the podcast is the author and fellow podcaster Gretchen Rubin. |
| 1:17.0 | Now Gretchen's name has become synonymous with happiness, mainly because she has researched and written about the subject for over a decade now. |
| 1:25.0 | She has tested theories on how to live a more fulfilled life and written extensively |
| 1:30.0 | on the link between happiness and habits, and the books based on those tests and research |
| 1:34.4 | have become and are New York Times best-selling books. She is a member of Oprah's Super Soul 100 |
| 1:41.2 | and has been interviewed on the subject of happiness by Oprah herself and has one of iTunes most downloaded |
| 1:46.7 | podcasts happier with Gretchen Rubin. Now all of this means that Gretchen has become something of a star in the |
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