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10% Happier with Dan Harris

A New Way to Think About Your Time | Ashley Whillans

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

For many of us, in this pandemic, our relationship to time has become particularly fraught. You may be noticing that, with no limits on your work time, you are going into overdrive and feeling more crazed than ever. Or you may be feeling like you have too much time and are bored out of your mind. Or you may be feeling both. My guest, Ashley Whillans, is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School and author of the book Time Smart. She was recommended to us by a former guest, Laurie Santos, a professor from Yale and host of The Happiness Lab podcast. Ashley has a radical approach to managing your time -- or taking your time, to put a new spin on an old cliche. Her goal is to get you from a state of "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"; and the value of canceling meetings. This is the first of a two-part series we are doing this week on time. On Wednesday, we're going to talk to someone with a rather different approach. Her name is Jenny Odell and she wrote a bestseller called How To Do Nothing. Take a few minutes to help us out by answering a survey about your experience with this podcast! The team here is always looking for ways to improve, and we'd love to hear from all of you, but we'd particularly like to hear from those of you who listen to the podcast and do not use our companion app. Please visit https://www.tenpercent.com/survey to take the survey. Thank you.   Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/ashley-whillans-318

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we get started with today's episode, if you've been around TPH land for any

0:05.4

length of time, you've probably heard me name drop Joseph Goldstein.

0:10.1

He started out as my meditation teacher then became my friend and then we teamed up to

0:15.9

help start the 10% happier meditation app.

0:19.6

And I just wanted to remind you that there is a ton of content featuring Joseph and his

0:26.2

humor and wisdom over on the app where he's the lead teacher on six different courses.

0:31.4

I'd recommend you start with the basics, which features your truly and Joseph talking

0:37.1

about how to achieve perfect imperturbability and bulletproof bliss.

0:41.6

Actually, just kidding.

0:43.6

It's just about how to get 10% happier through basic meditation.

0:47.3

It's free.

0:48.3

If you want to check it out, I encourage you to do so.

0:51.4

Download the 10% happier app today wherever you get your apps now on with the show.

0:56.8

Well done.

1:01.2

You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape

1:06.8

and found me Rob Briden on my podcast.

1:10.9

In this series of Briden and I talk to, among others, Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte

1:17.3

Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

1:21.0

And that's just a few.

1:22.8

We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.

1:26.8

It's terrific conversation, reminiscent, sweat appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

1:32.9

So do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts.

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