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Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most Kindle Edition

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Learn how to reframe your time around life’s happiest moments to build days that aren’t just full but fulfilling with this “joyful guide” (Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author) that is the antidote to overscheduling.

Our most precious resource isn’t money. It’s time. We are allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us feeling “time poor.” Since we can’t add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives as richer?

Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Professor Cassie Holmes demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time.
Happier Hour provides empirically based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to:

-Optimally spend your hours and feel confident in those choices
-Sidestep distractions
-Create and savor moments of joy
-Design your schedule with purpose
-Look back on your years without regrets

Enlivened by Holmes’s upbeat narrative and groundbreaking research,
Happier Hour “is filled with loads and loads of practical, evidence-based advice for how to live better by investing in what really matters. It’s the kind of book that can change your life for the better” (Laurie Santos, Yale professor and host of The Happiness Lab podcast).
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“Enlightening… As thorough as it is practical, this one’s well worth readers’ time.”
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“With our schedules overly full, Holmes shares research and easy strategies for not only how to manage, but tap into deeper meaning.
Happier Hour is a joyful guide on how to spend hours to live a more satisfying life.”
—Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play

“A refreshingly novel approach on how to make your life rich.
Happier Hour shows you step-by-step how to wisely invest your most precious resource—time.”
—Jonah Berger, New York Times bestselling author of Contagious

“This book is an absolute gem–useful, evidence-based, and a pleasure to read. Armed with the insights conveyed in
Happier Hour, we can all find greater fulfillment in the time we have.”
—Katy Milkman, National Bestselling author of How to Change

“Cassie Holmes is an expert on time, and this readable, practical book might just make you rethink how you spend yours.”
—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast WorkLife

“Terrific advice from one of my favorite scientists about how to make best use of our most limited resource: time.”
—Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author of Grit

“Happier Hour is filled with loads and loads of practical, evidence-based advice for how to live better by investing in what really matters. It's the kind of book that can change your life for the better.”
—Laurie Santos, Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast

About the Author

Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, where she is an award-winning teacher and researcher. Holmes’s work on the intersection of time and happiness has been widely published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets as NPR, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and more. Happier Hour is her first book.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09RX51K3B
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books (September 6, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 6, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 9565 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 313 pages
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Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and an award-winning teacher and researcher of time and happiness. Cassie earned her PhD at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and her BA at Columbia as a psychology major. Cassie’s research has been widely published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets as NPR, the Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and the Washington Post. Happier Hour is her first book.

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Customers find the book insightful and helpful with exercises that offer surprising results. They appreciate the recent research on happiness and related topics, as well as the relatable examples and practical advice. The book helps them plan their schedules.

"...I love this book and definitely recommend! The exercises are so helpful and really bring to light how much time you are wasting!" Read more

"...(her own and other’s) that made the story itself enjoyable and fast-paced...." Read more

"...on how to find what parts of your day make you most happy, how to minimize bad hours or make them a little less bad, and how to get more happiness..." Read more

"...Appreciated the emphasis on time as a finite asset which thus makes setting your priorities paramount." Read more

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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2024
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    I loved the truth from this book! So many people play victim to time and being “busy” this book breaks it down how to overcome that if it is something you struggle with! It has great ideas and suggestions. From reading other reviews people seem to be getting stuck on her recommendation of “hiring help” and this doesn’t pertain to everyone but that doesn’t make it a bad suggestion, the idea behind it is of you are able to get outside help to free time up to do what you love or spend your time with who you love it is worth the cost! I love this book and definitely recommend! The exercises are so helpful and really bring to light how much time you are wasting!
  • Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2024
    Author asserts we suffer from “time poverty.” Should we give up everything and become ascetics? No because there is a sweet spot between 2 hrs of discretionary free time everyone needs in a day.

    She cites some research that those who chose time over income were ultimately happier . They were also happier because they invested in personal relationships w family , friends , and even co workers (best work friend)
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2022
    I enjoyed both reading this book and following along with the author’s own voice on Audible.

    Though I was already familiar with some of the research, I found this book to be a breakthrough because it shows how to put the the theory in practice against today’s back drop of business and societal expectations. The author made it an enjoyable read by putting in personal vignettes (her own and other’s) that made the story itself enjoyable and fast-paced. It also gave me the sense that the approaches were sustainable… for real people.

    One area where I’d love the author to follow up is how this works for people of lower economic means. Is time poverty experienced (or manageable) in the same ways when there is also financial poverty?

    All in all a great debut effort. Can’t wait to read / heard more from her.
    30 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2023
    The downloaded Kindle version is missing letter and parts of words. It is also poorly formatted. The content is excellent. I hope you can fix the format problems.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2024
    I thought it was going to be an ordinary productivity book, and I read 2-3 nonfiction books a month but I was pleasantly surprised. I don't think the title and subtitle do it justice. It's more of a "get more value from your time" book.

    It has strategies on how to find what parts of your day make you most happy, how to minimize bad hours or make them a little less bad, and how to get more happiness from the most enjoyable hours of your day. The idea of ritualizing and naming the best parts of your week was a great idea I'd never heard before, I'm already implementing this. The end ties it all together with you crafting your ideal week.

    Science based and very actionable. It's an easy read but there are no grand exciting stories that are popular in this genre but only real world examples from the author and people she knows. Still a hidden gem, and I'm very glad I gave this a chance. You should too
    5 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2022
    I enjoyed reading this and got a lot out of it. However, if one has older kids (and all that brings, especially if your kids are in public school), pet(s), elderly parents, is a single parent, and/or doesnt have the money to outsource cooking and cleaning and petcare, eldercare, or pay for private schools, the whole thing might fall apart. How does she do all the "household to-dos" in 2 hours?! Definitely got some Cheryl Sandberg/ not a normal mortal vibes, but like I said, I still got a lot of out it. Feels a bit aspirational for me, but sometimes it's nice to pretend things like getting all the household stuff done in 2 hours is possible! Appreciated the emphasis on time as a finite asset which thus makes setting your priorities paramount.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2023
    I loved this book! Important concepts, and we are given structure, vocabulary and concrete actions to practice them. Straightforward, minimal prose and I love the chapter summaries which reinforce the learning. I have been recommending heavily to friends and will review key points again to incorporate in my life.
    4 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2023
    I picked this book up on a whim and I’m really glad I did. The book flowed really well and the author was relatable. It’s packed with lots of great ideas for thinking about your time, how your spending it and the best ways to make it count. There’s even several helpful exercises throughout the book that offered some surprising results when I finished them. Really glad I found this! A big thank you to the author for writing it and sharing her knowledge.
    14 people found this helpful
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