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How To Manage Your Time For A Happier Life - Dr Cassie Holmes - #547

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Dr Cassie Holmes is a Professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, an author and an award-winning researcher of time and happiness. Time management in the modern world is hard. Many people don't feel like they have sufficient space to complete their to do list, let alone manifest their spare-time dreams. With some new strategies and a different mindset around time however, this problem might be fixed. Expect to learn what time habits the happiest people all have, how to truly value things experiences you want to enjoy, the relationship between time and happiness, the best techniques for an efficient schedule, how science advises you to deepen friendships, how to make tasks you don't want to do suck less and much more... Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:20) The Link Between Time & Happiness (03:49) Biggest Predictors of Life Satisfaction (09:36) Is Happiness Better Experienced or Remembered? (14:48) Strategies for Increased Happiness (21:44) Choose Importance Over Urgency (28:31) The Need for a Specific Goal (32:31) Bundling the Non-Negotiables (36:46) How to Deepen Friendships (43:34) Society’s Lack of Conversation (47:08) Time Poverty Vs Time Affluence (58:05) Relationship Between Time & Money (1:12:20) Where to Find Dr Holmes Extra Stuff: Check out Cassie's website - https://www.cassiemholmes.com/ Buy Happier Hour - https://amzn.to/3DAdigA  Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi friends, welcome back to this show. My guest today is Dr Cassie Holmes,

0:05.1

she's a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and author and an award-winning

0:10.0

researcher of time and happiness. Time management in the modern world is hard. Many people don't

0:16.0

feel like they have sufficient space to complete their to-do list, let alone manifest their spare

0:20.4

time dreams. With some new strategies and a different mindset around time, however, this problem

0:25.6

might be fixed. I expect to learn what time habits the happiest people all have, how to truly value

0:32.2

experiences you want to enjoy, the relationship between time and happiness, the best techniques

0:37.3

for an efficient schedule, how science advises you to deepen relationships, how to make tasks you

0:42.5

don't want to do so less, and much more. I really appreciate an insight into time management,

0:51.2

I think that it's something everybody could be better at, even my most efficient, most effective

0:55.6

best executive functioning friends, all need an assistance, and Cassie is literally one of the

1:00.4

world's leaders when it comes to researching time and happiness, so you're in good hands today.

1:06.0

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