
In "Happier Hour," UCLA professor Cassie Holmes reveals how to beat time poverty with science-backed strategies. Endorsed by Yale's Laurie Santos, this guide transforms overscheduled lives through "time savoring" - a counterintuitive approach that helps working parents find joy in every precious minute.
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Ever catch yourself racing through your day, only to realize you can't remember what you actually did? You're moving fast, checking boxes, but somehow feeling emptier than when you started. This isn't just busyness - it's time poverty, and it's quietly stealing our lives. Nearly half of Americans report feeling this way, trapped in an endless cycle of obligations with no breathing room. Yet here's the twist: the problem isn't that we need more hours in the day. It's that we've forgotten how to inhabit the hours we already have. When you have less than two hours of free time each day, something breaks inside you. The data is unambiguous - people living with this level of time scarcity report significantly lower happiness, higher stress, and emotional exhaustion that seeps into everything they touch. But here's what surprised researchers: having too much free time - more than five hours daily - also correlates with decreased happiness. We need purpose. We need to feel useful. The sweet spot? Between two and five hours of discretionary time each day. This isn't some impossible fantasy requiring a complete life overhaul. Small adjustments - protecting work hours from meaningless tasks, saying no to obligations that drain you, occasionally outsourcing chores you hate - can move most people into this zone. What if the answer to feeling perpetually rushed isn't finding more time, but fundamentally transforming our relationship with it?
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco

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