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Use the Four Tendencies to Motivate Your Kids (And Yourself)

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Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I discuss how you can use Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies paradigm to find successful strategies to motivate your kids -- and maybe even yourself! I recently read Gretchen Ruben's book, The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles that Reveal How to Make Your Life Better.  This is not a comprehensive personality system like Myers Briggs, Enneagram, or the Big Five -- rather Ruben seeks to describe 4 kinds of people using one very limited filter -- how we deal with expectations.  The results are surprisingly illuminating and useful for things like motivation and behavior change. I don't want to go into too much detail -- Ruben has a bunch of YouTube videos out where she goes does deep dive explanations -- and I would also encourage you to read her book.  But in short, she categorizes people based on two measures -- how they deal with external expectations...