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Do you ever feel like there aren't enough hours in the day for you to do the things you want to do?

Pressed by endless work and family obligations.

Have you ever dreamed of quitting this life and moving to a remote beach where you could read, paint, play music, or just veg?

When we feel time poor, endless hours to do whatever we please sounds like the ultimate luxury.

But research suggests that the relationship between leisure time

and contentment is not so straightforward, and that it's not the amount of time that you have,

but how you spend it that determines your happiness. So is there an ideal amount of free time?

Is it possible to have too much free time or too little? Who's happier?

People who focus on the value of time or those who focus on the value of money?

And are there ways to increase your sense of time affluence without making a major change like quitting your job?

Is it possible to make time-sucking chores like housework and commuting seem

less onerous? Welcome to Speaking of Psychology, the flagship podcast of the American

Psychological Association that examines the links between psychological science and everyday life.

I'm Kim Mills. My guest today is Dr. Cassie Holmes, a professor of marketing and

behavioral decision-making at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. She studies time and happiness,

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