Money and Parkinson's Law

6min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

When it comes to money, we've all experienced this and then learned from the lesson that we've made not much. Then we get promoted or graduate into a higher level or whatever you want to call it. And then it seems like then we still don't have excess ever. We just start to live above our means when we were fine previously living at the other level of means just fine. It just always felt like it's just not enough. This relates to time in my mind when it comes to Parkinson's Law, which is that work expands to fill the time allotted for it.

This week I was excited to welcome Dr. Cassie Holmes to the show to discuss her new book,

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

Cassie is a professor of marketing and behavioral decision making at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and is a renowned expert in the field of time and its correlation to happiness.

In this conversation Cassie guides listeners through a variety of insights and exercises she’s shared with MBA students in her wildly popular UCLA course. Dr. Holmes unpacks concepts such as time poverty, what it is, why it’s damaging, how it’s subjective, and ways you can quickly increase your time affluence. We discuss how the use of time tracking can easily and quickly guide those suffering from time poverty to a more fruitful, fulfilling and happier pace of life.

In addition to sharing techniques and research that she has discovered while writing the book, Cassie also reveals some of the psychology and behavioral science that can lead to the sometimes overwhelming feelings of time poverty and the power of embracing quality time over mundane time-costs such as excess social media, and pseudo-work.

Follow Cassie’s Work:

https://www.cassiemholmes.com

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices