EP123 Gretchen Rubin on how teachers can use the 4 tendencies to help students (and themselves) to meet goals & expectations

I'm talking today with New York Times best-selling author Gretchen Rubin . I've learned so much from Gretchen's research on happiness from her book The Happiness Project , and I've studied her work on habits from the book Better Than Before . Gretchen's latest book is called The 4 Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too) . I invited her on the show because the four tendencies are not just another personality type: They're about how people tend to respond to and meet expectations. When I first heard about the tendencies, I immediately saw the application to our work in the classroom, because it's such a challenge to figure out how to get students to meet expectations. Listen in as Gretchen and I talk about understanding students' tendencies — as well as our own — so we can be more productive and accomplish the things that really matter. Click here to listen to the audio, or read or share the condensed transcript and participate in the discussion.