Welcome to episode 201 of Live Happy Now, brought to you this week by the Happy Child Summit.

I'm Paula Phelps thanking you for joining us today to talk about something that I think most

of us spend a lot of time thinking about and all of us want more of. And no, I'm not even talking

about sleep. This week, it's all about time as designer Jake Knapp joins us.

Jake spent 10 years at Google, where he helped build products like Gmail and Google Hangouts,

but perhaps his greatest accomplishment is that he figured out how we can design our days to get more out of them.

Today, he's talking with us about his new book,

Make Time, How to Focus on What Matters Every Day, and he's going to tell us how we can learn

to do our days differently. Jake, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for sitting down and talking

with us today. Well, thank you for having me. It's great to be here. You know, this is a really relevant book because I don't know a single person who says they have too much time on their hands anymore. Yeah, that's true. That's not a common conversation starter. What do I do with all my free time? Exactly. I mean, we hear this all the time. People are too busy and people say, I just don't have time. So are we busier than we used to be? Or is it the way we're structuring our time? What's going on with us in time?

I don't know. I think there's probably some element of the human experience, at least in modern kind of industrial age, that has probably

always felt really busy and there's always been a lot of stress, I think. But there is definitely

something going on with our technology and the rate at which we're improving our ability to be

distracted these days. And also just I think our

culture more and more accepts busyness and expects busyness, especially in the United States.

And if you're in the United States, I think you're used to asking people how they are and hearing

I'm busy. And that can mean good or bad or whatever,

but that's the standard answer.

Yeah, it is.

We kind of wear that as our little badge or as an excuse.

Like, I can't do it.

I'm just too busy to do that.

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