Welcome to episode 193 of Live Happy Now.

This is your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us today.

This week, we have a really special guest.

Daniel Pink is a New York Times best-selling author, and with his latest book, When,

The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, he takes a fresh look at how we make decisions.

Now, we make decisions every day, and we ask ourselves what we need to do, how we're going to do

it, and sometimes why we need to do it. But with this latest book, Daniel shows us how the way

we time our decisions can change our days, our jobs, and even our relationships. Let's hear what he has to say.

Daniel, thank you for joining us today on Live Happy Now. It's really a pleasure to have you here today on

our show. It's great to be with you. You know, you've looked at a topic that is something I don't

think a lot of us have put a lot of thought into, even though we are making decisions every day,

we really don't look at timing. So what is it, though, that made you decide to start looking at the

science of timing and how that affects us? Yeah, I think it was really more frustration than anything

else because, you know, exactly as you say, I was making all kinds of timing decisions in my own

life. I'm a writer. When should I do my writing? When should I exercise in the day? When should I

start a project? When should I stop a project? And I was making those decisions in a very haphazard way

that frustrated me. And I looked around for guidance, didn't find it. And then I started just said,

hey, I wonder if there's

any research on this topic. And it turned out there was a huge amount of research on this topic.

The challenge was that it was not in a single discipline. So it wasn't, there was some in

psychology, but it wasn't only in psychology because there were some in economics. And it was in

anthropology. And it was in molecular biology. And there's a whole field called chronobi economics, and it was in anthropology, and it was in molecular biology.

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