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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."" -Publisher's Weekly (starred review)"

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 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 Enlightening... As thorough as it is practical, this one's well worth readers' time. --Publisher's Weekly (starred review) 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 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 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 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

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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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