THE FOUR TENDENCIES | Our Indispensable Personality Profiles | Gretchen Rubin

With a lot of the tendencies. Just seeing the patterns, just understanding how your behavior fits into a predictable pattern is often freeing for people because they're like, oh, I didn't understand this is what I was doing. And a lot of people, I think, have this experience with the four tendencies where it's like, now I understand why I succeeded sometimes and not other times, I understand the pattern of my life much better. This can really illuminate some hidden aspects of our nature. So the tendency isn't meant to tell you what to do. It's supposed to explain why you are doing it or aren't doing it. 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, why don't you do it? Or, you know, that something would make somebody else happier, why aren't they listening to you.