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CM 172: Ashley Whillans On How to Reclaim Your Time
CM 172: Ashley Whillans On How to Reclaim Your Time
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46 minutes
Released:
Oct 12, 2020
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How can we escape the time traps that keep us from living our best lives?
These are the traps that make us feel like there are never enough hours in the day. They leave us time poor, a term Ashley Whillans talks about in her book, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life.
Ashley is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School and a leading scholar on time and happiness research. She explains the negative impact feeling time poor can have on our health, our productivity, and our relationships.
In contrast, when we prioritize how we spend our time, we gain many positive results, no matter where we reside in the world. Ashley says, "People who value time report greater happiness, less stress, less negative emotion. Doesn't matter where I study this, in India, in Kenya, in the U.S., in Canada, in Denmark, focusing on time is an important path to happiness."
Ashley designed tools to help us rethink our relationship with time. These include self-assessments and checklists for making smarter decisions about how we use our time. She explains how incorporating them into our lives can prompt us to ask, "not only how much would that decision cost you, but how much time would it cost."
Ashley Whillans is part of the Workplace and Well-Being Initiative at Harvard, and she advises organizations on workplace and well-being strategies. Her work has appeared in publications like, the New York Times, The Atlantic, and the Wall Street Journal.
Curious Minds Team
Learn more about creator and host, Gayle Allen, and producer and editor, Rob Mancabelli, here.
Episode Links
Daniel Gilbert
Time poverty
Autonomy paradox
Time confetti and Brigid Schulte
Yes-damn effect
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
Mere urgency effect
Psychological safety
Time affluence
Time is Tight: How Higher Economic Value of Time Increases Feelings of Time Pressure by Sanford Devoe and Jeffrey Pfeffer
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These are the traps that make us feel like there are never enough hours in the day. They leave us time poor, a term Ashley Whillans talks about in her book, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life.
Ashley is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School and a leading scholar on time and happiness research. She explains the negative impact feeling time poor can have on our health, our productivity, and our relationships.
In contrast, when we prioritize how we spend our time, we gain many positive results, no matter where we reside in the world. Ashley says, "People who value time report greater happiness, less stress, less negative emotion. Doesn't matter where I study this, in India, in Kenya, in the U.S., in Canada, in Denmark, focusing on time is an important path to happiness."
Ashley designed tools to help us rethink our relationship with time. These include self-assessments and checklists for making smarter decisions about how we use our time. She explains how incorporating them into our lives can prompt us to ask, "not only how much would that decision cost you, but how much time would it cost."
Ashley Whillans is part of the Workplace and Well-Being Initiative at Harvard, and she advises organizations on workplace and well-being strategies. Her work has appeared in publications like, the New York Times, The Atlantic, and the Wall Street Journal.
Curious Minds Team
Learn more about creator and host, Gayle Allen, and producer and editor, Rob Mancabelli, here.
Episode Links
Daniel Gilbert
Time poverty
Autonomy paradox
Time confetti and Brigid Schulte
Yes-damn effect
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
Mere urgency effect
Psychological safety
Time affluence
Time is Tight: How Higher Economic Value of Time Increases Feelings of Time Pressure by Sanford Devoe and Jeffrey Pfeffer
Ways to Support the Podcast
If you're a fan of the show, there are three simple things you can do to support our work:
Rate and review the podcast on iTunes or wherever you subscribe.
In the next week, tell one person about the show.
Subscribe so you never miss an episode.
Where to Find Curious Minds
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Released:
Oct 12, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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