Why You Never Have Enough Time

The Art of Accomplishment

Brett Kistler

Management, Mental Health, Personal Development, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 269 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

According to some studies, over 80% of Americans experience time scarcity. In this episode, Joe and Brett explore what’s going on when we feel time scarce. They unpack why so many of us feel starved for time in an era of unprecedented efficiency, and provide clear, actionable insights into how presence and emotional awareness can change our perception of time itself. They cover: - Why time scarcity is more about emotional overwhelm than actual hours - The paradox of saving time but still feeling busier than ever - How presence shifts our experience of time - The role of grief, fear, and shame in the feeling of “not enough” - The importance of rest, integration, and flow states

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0:00.0	80% of Americans today say that they are time starved. And despite having more tools available to make more use of our time than we've ever had, what's going on with that?
0:10.9	Take that statistic. Oh, we think that we are time starved. And don't get me wrong, I think there's truth to it, but today screens generally are like,
0:21.5	I think it's somewhere between six and eight hours a day generally. And you know that's not
0:25.3	all productive work. It's Instagram and everybody complains about it. So how is it that we're
0:30.7	time starved and yet we can spend five hours a day in entertainment, Netflix and Apple, Instagram, and like...
0:42.0	Or writing Instagram posts about how time-starved we are.
0:45.3	Right.
0:46.5	Yeah, or another way to think about this,
0:48.4	which I think is a kind of cool way to think about it.
0:50.3	Most of us now have figured out some way to save time with AI,
0:55.6	but nobody feels like they have their time back. I got it. Most of us now have figured out some way to save time with AI, but nobody's ever,
1:00.6	nobody feels like they have their time back. I got my time back. I had AI do the outline.
1:04.3	That I had my washing machine wash my clothes, that I had the dishwasher wash my dishes.
1:09.6	Exactly. I was in a company where we're implementing this thing called five-star meetings.
1:15.1	And five-star meetings is basically a way to make sure all of your meetings are really great.
1:21.7	And the more people implement it, what happens is people spend less time in meetings because the meetings that you have are really good and you stop doing the ones that aren't good
1:25.7	and you find other replacements.
1:27.4	And so I'm sitting there and every single executive around this table, have are really good and you stop doing the ones that aren't good and you find other replacements.
1:32.8	And so I'm sitting there and every single executive around this table says to me that they have saved a tremendous amount of time. They're not going to all these meetings. Right? Because they've like
1:38.5	maybe it's like two to three hours a week, but most of the cases it's like six or seven hours a week they're
1:43.2	saving and not going to certain meetings, not being in meetings. And then, you know, 20, 30 minutes later,
1:49.0	we're talking about the investment we have to make to get five-star meetings more widely
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