Happier Hour by Cassie Holmes

Happier Hour by Cassie Holmes

'Cassie Holmes is an expert on time, and this readable, practical book might just make you rethink how you spend yours' Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again An expert guide to managing your time for a happier, more fulfilling existence. The most precious commodity we own 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' - like we never have enough. Since we can't add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives more richly? Based on Professor Cassie Holmes's wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Happier Hour demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Holmes provides empirically based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to: -Spend your hours optimally and feel confident in your choices -Side-step distractions -Create and savour moments of joy -Design your days and weeks with purpose -Look back on your years without regret Enlivened by Holmes's upbeat narrative and groundbreaking research, Happier Hour will teach you how small changes can have an enormous impact - helping you feel less overwhelmed, more present and more satisfied with your life overall - things that money can't buy. It all starts by transforming just one hour into a happier hour.

Cassie Holmes is an expert on time, and this readable, practical book might just make you rethink how you spend yours * Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again *
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, bestselling author of How to Change *
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 *
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 your 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 *
More free time isn't always better - a good reality check for anyone fantasizing about quitting a job to move to a tropical island ... Holmes engagingly conveys what she has learned from her study. * Wall Street Journal *

Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Trained as a social psychologist, she earned her PhD at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and her BA at Columbia. An award-winning teacher and researcher on the role of time in cultivating happiness and satisfaction in life, Holmes's work 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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ISBN 13	9780241458952
ISBN 10	0241458951
Title	Happier Hour
Author	Cassie Holmes
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2023-01-12
Number of pages	320
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