The Upholder
"Making a habit= Following rules. Some personality types thrive when given rules and some rebel against them. To successfuly adapt our habits, we need to be aware of how we deal with rules we impose on ourselves("inner rules") and rules imposed on us by others ("outer rules")."- Gretchen Rubin Ted speech ideas and author of The Happiness Project and Happier at Home
In next four posts I want to review and discuss what Gretchen defines as four personality types when it comes to habits. In today's post I want to review and discuss the first type: The Upholder.
Ms. Rubin defines The Upholder as someone who is great at
1. adhering to inner rules
and
2. outer rules.
The way I would define this person is someone who has great control of themselves. They are able to self-correct their behavior by setting up inner rules. As an example, it might be a person who chooses to lose weight and they simply decide to not eat dinner. They just stop eating dinner.
But not only are they great at creating their own self rules they follow outer rules equally. In other words, if they are the team leader and their boss tells them to execute X they do not challenge it and simply execute it. This is OK for most unimportant decisions but for critical path changing decisions that is dangerous.
The way I would term the Upholder is someone who is a great follower. Once rules are set up, inner or outer, they just follow.
Today's question is:
"Are you an Upholder?"
"Making a habit= Following rules. Some personality types thrive when given rules and some rebel against them. To successfuly adapt our habits, we need to be aware of how we deal with rules we impose on ourselves("inner rules") and rules imposed on us by others ("outer rules")."- Gretchen Rubin Ted speech ideas and author of The Happiness Project and Happier at Home
In next four posts I want to review and discuss what Gretchen defines as four personality types when it comes to habits. In today's post I want to review and discuss the first type: The Upholder.
Ms. Rubin defines The Upholder as someone who is great at
1. adhering to inner rules
and
2. outer rules.
The way I would define this person is someone who has great control of themselves. They are able to self-correct their behavior by setting up inner rules. As an example, it might be a person who chooses to lose weight and they simply decide to not eat dinner. They just stop eating dinner.
But not only are they great at creating their own self rules they follow outer rules equally. In other words, if they are the team leader and their boss tells them to execute X they do not challenge it and simply execute it. This is OK for most unimportant decisions but for critical path changing decisions that is dangerous.
The way I would term the Upholder is someone who is a great follower. Once rules are set up, inner or outer, they just follow.
Today's question is:
"Are you an Upholder?"
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