The Four Tendencies Framework and How We Respond To Expectations with Gretchen Rubin
Raising Good Humans
Dear Media, Aliza Pressman
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week bestselling author Gretchen Rubin joins us as she delves into her Four Tendencies personality framework. Discover how understanding your response to expectations can enhance your habits, relationships, and overall well-being. We dive into the four different tendencies, and explore the characteristics of each one. Once you have a sense of your tendency and your child’s, you can more easily strategize how to meet those expectations, and better connect.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Raising Good Humans podcast. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and today's episode is so fun. I had a |
| 0:17.2 | conversation with Gretchen Rubin, who you might know from her fantastically popular podcast, |
| 0:24.6 | Happier with Gretchen Rubin. |
| 0:26.3 | She's also the author of many best-selling books |
| 0:29.8 | such as The Happiness Project Better than Before, in five senses and the four tendencies and |
| 0:35.5 | today we're having a really cool conversation about the four tendencies it's this |
| 0:39.7 | indispensable personality profile that reveals how we best respond to expectations |
| 0:49.0 | depending on our tendencies. |
| 0:51.8 | And when you understand this it's like a really fun way to think |
| 0:57.6 | about how to communicate what you need from your kids from your partner I just had a lot of fun with it the four |
| 1:05.9 | tenancies which we're going to go through are the obliger the questioner the |
| 1:10.3 | upholder and the rebel So have a listen. |
| 1:14.0 | You guys can take the quiz. |
| 1:16.0 | I took the quiz. |
| 1:17.0 | You're going to find out what I am. |
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