For Whom the Alarm Clock Tolls
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
'Time famine' is when you just don't feel you have a spare moment... and it can make you miserable. It's a feeling Dr Laurie Santos knows only too well, so she seeks help from her time affluence hero, Idler author Tom Hodgkinson.
Tom lives life to the full, but he ensures he carves out time to wander around, think, chat with friends and even take naps. He argues that 'idling' is vital to leading a happy, creative and productive existence. Is he right? And if so, what can we all do to break free from the tyranny of time?
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:30.0 | Listening Vocabulary in Overall English Skills |
| 0:33.0 | Download the Listening Time Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:44.0 | Looking back in my diary, Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 was a fairly ordinary day. |
| 0:49.0 | And by fairly ordinary, I mean to say that my day was absolutely packed to the brim. |
| 0:56.0 | Which makes sense? Because I don't just have one amazing job. I have lots of them. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm a professor and a research scientist. I run one of Yale's residential colleges, |
| 1:05.0 | which means I have over 400 students to take care of all the time. |
| 1:08.0 | I travel a bunch for public lectures to spread the science of happiness. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm a manager to all my amazing staff, a colleague to my science friends. |
| 1:16.0 | And now I'm a podcaster too. |
| 1:18.0 | So how do I keep track of all these different roles? |
| 1:21.0 | My planner. |
| 1:23.0 | It's a small red notebook that I carry with me everywhere. |
| 1:26.0 | It's where I write out every single commitment I have, including the time it starts and the time it ends. |
| 1:31.0 | My planner is like a precious friend. |
| 1:34.0 | It helps me keep track of what I need to do every single day. |
| 1:37.0 | And so I'm not looking in my planner at the page for Wednesday, February 5th, 2020, |
| 1:42.0 | which, as usual, was completely packed. |
| 1:45.0 | On that day, I had some podcast stuff to do at specific times, |
| 1:48.0 | three different student meetings, a staff meeting, and an important department talk, |
| 1:53.0 | after which I wrote in very decisive all caps lettering, 3.45 pm, leave immediately. |
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