Pressed for Time? Give Some of Yours Away

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Harvard Business Review

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🗓️ 23 August 2012

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Cassie Mogilner, assistant professor of marketing at the Wharton School and author of the HBR article "You'll Feel Less Rushed If You Give Time Away."

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
0:05.9	HPR's podcast Coaching Real Leaders brings you behind closed doors as Muriel Wilkins coaches anonymous
0:11.9	leaders through raw honest career questions
0:14.6	that we all face.
0:15.9	Listen and follow coaching real leaders for free
0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review.
0:32.9	I'm Allison Beard.
0:34.6	We hear a lot from our readers and listeners
0:36.2	about how time constrained there are.
0:38.0	There just aren't enough hours in the day
0:39.5	to get everything done.
0:41.0	But some new research suggests that it's possible to change that feeling, paradoxically
0:45.2	by spending some of our precious time helping other people.
0:48.4	I'm here today with Cassie Mo Gilner of the Wharton School, who conducted that research along with Zoe Chance of Yale and
0:54.1	Michael Norton of Harvard.
0:55.9	Cassie, thanks so much for joining us today.
0:58.3	Thanks for having me.
0:59.9	So why don't you start out by telling me how you got interested in time?
1:04.0	Well, broadly I'm actually interested in happiness and well-being
1:09.8	and figuring out what are ways that people can conduct themselves so as to live the sort of best
1:16.4	most fulfilling life.
1:18.8	And what I noticed was that in a lot of the research that's focusing on well-being there's been an incredible
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