
In a world where 80% of us feel time-poor, Harvard professor Ashley Whillans reveals the science of reclaiming your hours and happiness. What if outsourcing house cleaning could boost your joy as much as a significant salary increase? Time Smart delivers the ultimate wealth - more meaningful moments.
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What if everything you've been taught about success is making you miserable? We chase promotions, bigger homes, and fuller bank accounts, believing that "someday" we'll finally have time to enjoy life. Yet despite earning more than previous generations and having technology that promised to liberate us, over 80% of working Americans report never having enough time. Here's the twist: we're not actually working more hours than we did in 1950. The average workweek has dropped from 37.8 to 34.2 hours, and we've gained 4-9 hours of weekly leisure time. So why does it feel like we're drowning? Picture your last "relaxing" evening at home. You settled onto the couch, ready to unwind, when your phone buzzed. A work email. Then a text. A news alert. A social media notification. Before you knew it, your peaceful hour had shattered into what researchers call "time confetti"-tiny fragments of 5-6 minutes, each interrupted by reminders of what you should be doing elsewhere. A single hour of leisure now faces an average of 21 interruptions. These aren't just annoying-they fundamentally transform how we experience time itself. This fragmentation creates a cruel paradox: we have more leisure time than ever, yet feel more time-starved. Technology hasn't freed us; it's made us feel perpetually behind. Even when physically present with family or friends, our minds remain tethered to work, to obligations, to that mounting list of tasks. We've traded deep, restorative leisure for shallow, anxiety-tinged downtime. The result? Time poverty has become an epidemic with real consequences: less exercise, worse nutrition, higher cardiovascular disease rates, and profound unhappiness that persists regardless of income level. The answer lies not in how much time we have, but in how we think about it-and that flawed thinking is costing us our health, happiness, and $640 billion annually in healthcare and lost productivity.
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