What Are the Four Tendencies? Each One, Explained

What Are the Four Tendencies? Each One, Explained

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.

The Four Tendencies Quiz: Which One Are You?

The Four Tendencies Quiz: Which One Are You?

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.