Great Expectations with Gretchen Rubin

Host Rabbi Rami talks with Gretchen Rubin about developing a framework for individual expectations and how understanding them benefits relationships, and her new book The Four Tendencies. An interview with her appears in the Sept/Oct issue of Spirituality & Health magazine.

Gretchen Rubin is one of the most influential and thought-provoking writers on the subject of happiness and human nature. Her books include the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Better Than Before and The Happiness Project. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold almost three million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. On her award-winning weekly podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, she discusses happiness with her sister Elizabeth Craft. She’s been interviewed by Oprah, eaten dinner with Daniel Kahneman, and walked arm-in-arm with the Dalai Lama. She started her career in law and was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized she wanted to be a writer.