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Life is full of expectations, ones we have for ourselves and ones other people have for us. How do you respond to expectations? Do you fulfill them, or resist them? When, and why?
Gretchen Rubin has developed The Four Tendencies, a simple yet powerful personality test based on expectations. What are the Four Tendencies? What does it mean to be each tendency? We’ll explain it all here.
Want to figure out which of Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies you are? Take our version of Rubin’s Four Tendencies Quiz here.
This chapter contains our adaptation of the quiz Gretchen Rubin offers in the book and on her website. When answering these questions, choose the answer that is most generally true for you: don’t look for exceptions to the rule or focus on one area of your life.
Is the world really getting worse? Are things really as bad as they seem? The negativity bias makes us think so. But what is the negativity bias? And how do you overcome it? Find the definition of negativity bias, with plenty of examples and statistics, here.
hat is the Upholder tendency from Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies like? How do they behave, and what’s the Upholder Personality? Learn more about Upholders here.
What is Attribution Bias? Why do you tend to attribute actions to people’s fundamental traits, instead of the circumstances or external factors?
Learn more about what attribution bias is, find examples, and learn how to overcome it.
How does emotional health affect your physical health? How do you get emotional well being aligned with treating your disease?
Emotions are deeply connected to sickness and health, how vulnerable a patient is to disease, or how fast a patient recovers–and yet medicine and medical care often lack any trace of emotional intelligence.
How do you teach emotional intelligence and literacy to kids? Learn the key principles of teaching kids EQ, empathy, and how to handle their emotions.
Criticism, or feedback, is one of the major workplace areas that we need emotional intelligence.
People need feedback to do their jobs better and keep their work on track. Like cogs in a clock, every part of a system needs to be running at its best to keep the whole system going; in a workplace, people are the cogs, and everyone needs feedback to improve their performance for the sake of the whole.
How do you give feedback and constructive criticism? To your boss, and to employees?
How is emotional intelligence important in the workplace? What does emotional intelligence have to do with leadership? Learn the top tips on working with a high EQ here.
Want to raise an emotionally intelligent child with a high EQ? It all starts with the parents.
Our family is the first place we learn about emotions and how to handle them. Children learn not just through the things parents say, but the things they see parents do as well.