What Japan Taught Me About Personality (And Parenting)

What Japan Taught Me About Personality (And Parenting)

March 17, 2026 · 17 min · Season 3 · Episode 195

About this episode

Kate Mason shares insights from her family trip to Japan, exploring personality through the lens of the four temperaments.

What if the most powerful personality lesson of your life came not from a book or a podcast…but from a train in Tokyo? Kate Mason shares warm, witty, and surprisingly profound reflections from her holiday in Japan. Travelling with her family, Kate finds herself using the four temperaments: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic, to make sense of everything from Tokyo's train etiquette to the way her travel companions plan (or don't plan) their days. This episo...

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