🧭Four Tendencies | Free Course
- Jul 31
- 3 min read
Updated: 6 days ago
Free Course by Everything IFS Academy
Welcome to the Free Four Tendencies Course for Everyday People
🎧 Audio is read by AI - Chris Brift
In the mid-2010s, while researching why habit advice transforms some people and completely fails others, the writer Gretchen Rubin built a framework around one deceptively simple question: how do you respond to expectations? She called it the Four Tendencies, and it has since become one of the most widely loved mirrors for self-understanding in the world, road-tested by the millions of people who have taken her quiz and mapped by a survey of a nationally representative sample. If you've ever wondered why you can be endlessly reliable in one part of your life and mysteriously stuck in another, this framework was built for exactly that wondering.
In this course, you'll meet all four Tendencies, Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels, and almost certainly recognize yourself in one of them with an uncomfortable jolt of accuracy. You'll learn why some people need a workout buddy while others need a reason, why nagging backfires on certain people every single time, and how to finally work with your wiring instead of fighting it. The lessons are full of characters you'll swear you've met in real life, because once you know the four Tendencies, you start spotting them everywhere.
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Every course is self-paced, with no tests, exams, or homework. Feel free to go through it in order, or jump around to whatever interests you most. Simply click any module below to begin. Enjoy.
Course outline
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The Basics
The Four Tendencies Framework The Upholder The Questioner The Obliger The Rebel
How the Four Tendencies Mix The Tendency Overlaps
Living It Four Tendencies in Everyday Life
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