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Gretchen Rubin on Expectations, Pillars of Habits, and Understanding Why You React the Way You Do

The Anxious Achiever

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Anxious Achievers and Upholder Rebellion

Anxious achievers are equally intrinsically motivated, even if that intrinsic motivation is a learned behavior. Upholders tend to suffer from this much, much less because upholders can meet an inner expectation. And so upholders do tend to be better about sort of following their inner expectations for themselves. Thoir boundaries. Sometimes you have upholder rebellion. They try to somehow mute the sound of others expectations.

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