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Hey there, Happiness Lab listeners. Today I have a really special treat for you.

You see, there's this amazing podcast called 10% Happier, hosted by Dan Harris.

In case you're not yet a listener, here's a deal. On 10% Happier, Dan interviews,

researchers, celebrities, and meditation teachers about how to train your brain.

And there's a lot of crossover with the things we talk about on the Happiness Lab,

things like mindfulness, staying present, and well, happiness. Right now they're doing a whole series on a subject

that's near and dear to my heart. How to have a better work life balance.

So Dan invited me on the show to talk about some science-backed strategies for

heading the reset button at work. We taped the interview live on Facebook a few weeks ago,

and today we're bringing that whole full episode to you. Without further ado, here it is.

Very happy to be talking to Dr. Laurie Santos, host of the Excellent Happiness Lab podcast,

which I recommend to everybody, also Yale professor Laurie, great to see you.

Thanks so much for being on our live stream today. I am always happy to be associated with you in any possible way.

Same, same, same.

So we're talking about work and all the glory and suffering therein. And I know one of the subjects

you wanted to talk about as it pertains to work is time affluence. What does that mean?

Time affluence is this funny term that social scientists are using these days, which is basically your subjective sense

that you have some free time. It's the sense that you're wealthy in time. If somebody calls you to schedule something,

it's not like, well, how about never or how about 2023 or something like that?

It tends to be the opposite sensation of what we often experience, which is what's known as time famine,

where we're literally starving for time. And the evidence is cool. It suggests that time famine works a lot like hunger famine,

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