Gretchen Rubin

摘要

The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How To Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too) expands on a concept author Gretchen Rubin developed in her earlier work about habits, Better Than Before: the idea that people fall into one of four categories based on how they respond to expectations. Upholders find it easy to meet both inner and outer expectations; obligers satisfy obligations to others (an exercise partner, a book club) easily but struggle to meet inner expectations; questioners have no trouble achieving their own goals but may not respond well to those generated by others; and rebels have difficulty meeting both inner and outer expectations. Read the review on p. 106.