Gretchen Rubin: The Four Tendencies

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Josh Trent

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode reveals the hidden aspects of our nature that determine how we respond to the expectations of ourselves and others.

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On this podcast, we discover Gretchen Rubin's new book "The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How To Make Your Life Better (And Other People's Lives Better, Too)"

These 4 Tendencies give us a framework for how we react to the internal and external demands in our lives. When we better understand these patterns in our behavior, we gain immense control over our actions and decisions.

Although our personality type may be deeply ingrained, we can benefit from knowing these predictable behavioral patterns and set ourselves up for success.

Listen to Wellness Force Radio 129 as Gretchen shares her insight from decades of research in happiness, habits, and so much more.

Listen To Episode 129 As Gretchen Uncovers:

The personality framework that determines how we respond to expectations
Character traits of the Obliger, Questioner, Rebel, and Upholder
How to gain a deeper understanding of our actions
The benefit from identifying these predictable patterns of our behavior
The strengths and weaknesses of our different tendencies
How we can fine-tune our self-awareness
Why others may not see the world as we do
Ways to set our internal and external framework up for success
How these personality types play out in our relationships
Ways to understand how our behavior fits into predictable patterns
How we can avoid disempowering language
Why Gretchen prefers the newspaper over televised news
How to get the most out of yourself and others
How to set up the accountability we need to meet an inner expectation
The Four Tendencies in a nutshell:

The Four Tendencies

Upholders respond readily to outer and inner expectations

Questioners question all expectations; they’ll meet an expectation if they think it makes sense

Rebels resist all expectations, outer and inner alike

Obligers meet outer expectations, but struggle to meet expectations they impose on themselves

Transcript

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0:00.0	Wellness Force Radio,
0:05.0	radio. Feelings are essential, but they can't dictate our actions.
0:12.0	We literally inspect each other with our emotions.
0:15.0	We came here for a special purpose.
0:16.8	Let the purpose unveil itself.
0:19.0	Knowing without doing the same thing is not knowing.
0:20.9	They're not just trackers.
0:22.2	I'm gonna wear this and it's going to help me do the
0:23.7	right thing. Wellness Force Radio episode 129 with best-selling author Gretchen Rubin.
0:29.6	But with a lot of the tendencies, just understanding how your behavior fits into a
0:34.9	predictable pattern is often freeing for people because they're like oh I didn't
0:38.8	understand this is what I was doing and a lot of people I think have this
0:41.9	experience of the four tendencies where it's like, now I understand why I succeeded sometimes and not other times.
0:47.0	I understand the pattern of my life much better.
0:50.0	This can really illuminate some hidden aspects of our nature.
0:54.8	So the tenancy isn't meant to tell you what to do.
0:56.9	It's supposed to explain why you are doing it or aren't doing it.
0:59.5	Because I think there's many things that everybody would benefit from. and what's puzzling to me is given the fact that you acknowledge that something would make you happier
1:07.8	Why don't you do it or you know that something would make somebody else happier?
1:11.8	Why aren't they listening to you?
1:13.4	What's up my friend? It's your host Josh Trent and welcome back to another
1:17.8	episode for your weekly access to global experts in all things wellness as we
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