Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Gottman)
Subject in Relationships
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Gottman) has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Tim Ferriss Show. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Sheila HeenDeputy director of the Harvard Negotiation Project and co-author of Difficult Conversations
Heen reports that Gottman can watch five minutes of a couple's difficult conversation and predict divorce with roughly 90 percent accuracy.
“he can watch for five minutes and predict with their different numbers based on his different studies, but 90-ish, 90, 92% accuracy whether they'll divorce within three or five years”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #880: Relationship Tools That Work — Esther Perel, Brené Brown, Dr. Sue Johnson, Terry Real, and More on Conflict, Repair, and Lasting Love (Aug 19, 2026) · Listen from 23:29
Esther PerelBelgian-American psychotherapist and author of Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs
Perel cites Gottman's four horsemen—criticism, contempt, stonewalling, and defensiveness—as the main predictors of relationship decline.
“One is criticism, contempt, stonewalling, and defensiveness. Those four are pretty much the killers in the land of arguments and relationship decline”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #880: Relationship Tools That Work — Esther Perel, Brené Brown, Dr. Sue Johnson, Terry Real, and More on Conflict, Repair, and Lasting Love (Aug 19, 2026) · Listen from 4:19
Podcasts
- The Tim Ferriss Show · 1 episode
Episodes
#880: Relationship Tools That Work — Esther Perel, Brené Brown, Dr. Sue Johnson, Terry Real, and More on Conflict, Repair, and Lasting LoveThe Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 19, 2026 · 57 min
Tim Ferriss compiles advice from Esther Perel, Brené Brown, Brad Feld, Sue Johnson, Terry Real and others on sustaining long-term relationships.