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#290: Gretchen Rubin — Experiments in Happiness and Creativity

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Are You an Obligor or a Cannibal?

If you were an obliger by definition you can easily meet your meeting outer expectations but struggling to meet inner expectations. The way to fix this the very concrete and straightforward solution is outer accountabilityouter accountability can work for other tendencies it is essential for obligers if you want to read more join a book group or exercise more joined a class where they take attendance work out with a trainer worked out with a friend who's gonna be annoyed if you don't show up took your dog for a run every morning and he's gonna be so disappointed if he doesn't go for a run plus he's gonna tear up the living room some obligers can use things like their future self like well now Gretchen doesn

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