The Four Tendencies: How to Feed Good Habits

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🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Are you an upholder, a questioner, an obliger or a rebel? Gretchen Rubin of the Happier podcast has identified four ways that people respond to expectations - the Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw of habit change, if you will.

Figuring out your cognitive house might be the key to changing your bad habits for good. Including one habit we hear about a lot: clinging to the phone right up until our eyes drop closed.

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0:00.0	At the beginning of the school year at Hogwarts, the magic sorting hat signs Harry Potter and his friends to one of four houses, depending on their personality and lineage.
0:17.0	When I call your name, you will come forth. I shall place the sorting hat on your head and you will be sorted into your houses.
0:31.0	We don't have a magic hat today, but we do have a way of sorting you, dear muggles.
0:38.0	It's note to self, the tech show about being human, I'm Anouche Summerodi and this is our first new episode of 2017.
0:49.0	This week, a rubric for understanding what motivates us, four personality types and four approaches to sticking to healthy habits this new year.
1:00.0	Bestselling author and happiness expert Gretchen Rubin is back with what she calls the four tendencies.
1:08.0	Of course, Gretchen is the person you want to help you troubleshoot any healthy habit that you're having trouble sticking to.
1:14.0	And we will tell you how this relates to you and your technology.
1:23.0	But before we hear from Gretchen, I just want to put in a word of gratitude to you, dear listeners.
1:28.0	I want to thank you for all your generous donations that you made last month.
1:32.0	And thank you for taking our survey about how you feel about privacy.
1:37.0	We closed the survey after thousands of you took it, which was amazing.
1:40.0	It's also incredibly helpful as we put together our next big interactive project.
1:45.0	We'll be confronting all the confusing aspects related to our privacy in the digital age with a five-part plan called the Privacy Paradox.
1:55.0	It officially launches January 30th, but you can sign up now at privacyparadox.org.
2:02.0	Now, over to Gretchen.
2:04.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and I'm a writer and podcaster whose studies happiness, good habits and human nature.
2:14.0	Gretchen is best known for her book, The Happiness Project, in which she tested out theories about happiness.
2:20.0	Then she wrote another book, Better Than Before, All About Habits.
2:24.0	And now she has a podcast that she does with her sister called Happier.
2:28.0	But she also has another book on the way. It is called The Four Tendencies, and we are getting a sneak peek here today.
2:35.0	One of the questions I would ask people about habits was, how do you feel about New Year's resolutions?
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