318: A New Way To Think About Your Time | Ashley Whillans (2021)

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

What if one of the keys to happiness is how intentional you are with your time?

Ashley Whillans is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School and author of the book Time Smart. Her groundbreaking research has led her to radically reevaluate how she spends her own time. Her goal is to help you move from time poverty to time affluence.

In this conversation, we talk about:

How to do a time audit
Funding time, finding time, and reframing time
The surprising extent to which prioritizing time over money predicts happiness–and what to do if you usually do the opposite
How to handle “time confetti”
The value of canceling meetings

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast.
0:06.2	I'm Dan Harris.
0:08.0	Hey gang, my guest today argues that the happiest people use their time deliberately and
0:16.9	thoughtfully.
0:18.6	They've moved from a feeling of time starvation these people have to one of time affluence.
0:25.4	When I first heard this argument, I thought, oh man, that is not me.
0:29.0	Even though I have been, as you may know, seriously divesting myself of various professional
0:34.1	responsibilities and most recently quitting ABC News altogether, I still very frequently
0:40.0	feel like the proverbial beheaded chicken.
0:43.7	The good news here is that there are all sorts of strategies for making the aforementioned
0:47.3	move from time starvation to time affluence.
0:50.4	My guest today is a ninja in this regard.
0:53.9	Ashley Willins is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School and author of a book
0:57.8	called Time Smart.
0:59.6	She was recommended to us by a former guest on the show, a repeated guest, Laurie Santos,
1:03.6	the professor from Yale, who is the host of her own excellent podcast called Happiness
1:08.5	Lab.
1:09.5	Ashley has a pretty radical approach to managing your time or taking your time to put a new
1:15.1	spin on an old cliche in this conversation, which I should say we recorded a while back
1:20.6	and we're re-running today.
1:22.9	We talk about how to do a time audit, funding time, finding time, and reframing time, the
1:31.0	surprising extent to which prioritizing time over money predicts your happiness and
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