Nate’s Notes 115: Cassie Holmes on Time Poverty and Happiness

Thanks for listening to this episode of Meikles and Dimes. What great research Cassie shared today.

First, happiness isn’t determined by how much free time we have available. Rather, it’s determined by how we spend the time we have.

Looking at data form hundreds of thousands of working and nonworking Americans shows that people with too little time were just as unhappy as people with too much time. But the key to happiness is using our time in meaningful ways.

In other words, happiness isn’t about being time rich. It’s about making our time rich.

It’s a simple idea. Please take it seriously.

Cassie Holmes Bio:

Cassie Holmes is an award-winning marketing professor at UCLA and the bestselling author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. Her book was called a “must read” by Forbes, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times, and was featured on the Today Show, CBS Mornings, CNN, NPR’s Hidden Brain, and GOOP with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Cassie’s research has been published in leading academic journals, and the course she developed, Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, is among UCLA’s most popular MBA classes.

Prior to joining UCLA, Cassie was a professor at Wharton. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Columbia.