450: How to maximize your time & stop waiting for weekends | Award-winning happiness researcher Cassie Holmes, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Cassie Holmes, Ph.D.: “It’s not about how much time you have. It's really how you spend that time.” Cassie, a social psychologist and award-winning happiness researcher, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to better manage your time, plus: - The relationship between time & happiness (~01:09) - How to find your sweet spot with quality time (~08:54) - How to reframe unenjoyable parts of your day (~15:22) - How exercise makes you happier (~22:05) - When exercise can start to have diminishing returns on mood (~26:31) - How helping others makes you feel like you have more time (~30:23) - How to make the most out of ordinary experiences (~31:16) - How to stop waiting for weekends (~38:48) - How distractions derail your happiness (~42:40) - Why more time isn’t necessarily better (~45:23) - How to make mundane events feel extraordinary (~49:10) - How to identify your purpose (~55:24) Referenced in the episode: - Cassie's book, Happier Hour. - Find Cassie's time tracking worksheet. - Katy Milkman, Ph.D.'s research on bundling. - A study showing those spending time outside felt happier. - A study showing helping another person makes feel like you have more time. - A study showing we are distracted about 50% of the time. - A study showing having phones on the table leads to unhappiness. - Cassie's research on happiness from extraordinary vs. ordinary experiences. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on Youtube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
0:07.0	What happens now?
0:08.3	What happens now?
0:09.9	How will I cope? How will I cope?
0:13.1	Sometimes you don't want to talk about cancer to people you know.
0:17.2	You just want to talk to someone who knows how you feel.
0:22.0	That's why I joined the McMillan Online Community.
0:25.6	We know what it's like because we're living with cancer too.
0:30.0	And whatever's on your mind, we're here to help.
0:33.7	To join us, search McMillan Online Community.
0:37.2	Dr. Cassie Holmes is the professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management.
0:42.1	Trained as a social psychologist, she earned her PhD at Stanford's GSB and her BA at Columbia
0:47.7	at my alma mater. An award-winning teacher and researcher on the role of time in cultivating
0:53.3	happiness and satisfaction in life. Holmes' work has been widely published in lead academic
0:58.4	journals and featured in such outlets as NPR, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street
1:03.1	Journal, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and many, many more. And today, she's here to chat
1:08.4	about her latest and first book. It's your first book, right?
1:12.4	It is my first book.
1:14.1	So it's both the title, The Happier Hour, how to beat distraction, expand your time,
1:19.9	and focus on what matters most. Cassie, welcome.
1:23.9	Thanks so much, Jason. I'm excited to join you.
1:27.5	Yes, it's exciting to have you. I found your book to be fascinating.
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