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The Four Tendencies
The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too)
Understanding your own character and those of others improve relationships and happiness of your own and others
We all face two kinds of expectations, outer expectations (those that others place on us, like meeting a work deadline) and inner expectations (those we place on ourselves, like keeping a New Year’s resolution/having good intentions). Depending on the way a person responds to outer and inner expectations, that person falls into one of four distinct types:
Upholder: a person who believes strongly in maintaining a custom or practice,
keeping him/her from failure
Obliger: a person doing things as asked or who has a desire to help or please others
Rebel: a person who rises in opposition and who resists authority, control or convention
Questioner: a person who asks questions, expresses doubt about something
There’s no best or worst Tendency*. With wisdom, experience and self-knowledge from the Four Tendencies, we can use our time more productively, make better decisions, suffer less stress, get healthier, and engage more effectively with other people. The happiest and most successful people are those who have figured out ways to exploit their Tendency to their benefit and, just as important, found ways to counterbalance its limitations.
*The word ‘Tendency’ is a key word in the content of the book and is meant
to reflect a person’s particular characteristic or type of behaviour. In the context
of the book, the word ‘Tendencies’ is meant to describe the four types of personality profiles.