450: How to maximize your time & stop waiting for weekends | Award-winning happiness researcher Cassie Holmes, Ph.D.

Cassie Holmes, Ph.D.: “It’s not about how much time you have. It's really how you spend that time.”

Cassie, a social psychologist and award-winning happiness researcher, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to better manage your time, plus:

- The relationship between time & happiness (~01:09)

- How to find your sweet spot with quality time (~08:54) 

- How to reframe unenjoyable parts of your day (~15:22)

- How exercise makes you happier (~22:05)

- When exercise can start to have diminishing returns on mood (~26:31)

- How helping others makes you feel like you have more time (~30:23)

- How to make the most out of ordinary experiences (~31:16)

- How to stop waiting for weekends (~38:48)

- How distractions derail your happiness (~42:40)

- Why more time isn’t necessarily better (~45:23)

- How to make mundane events feel extraordinary (~49:10)

- How to identify your purpose (~55:24)

Referenced in the episode:

- Cassie's book, Happier Hour.

- Find Cassie's time tracking worksheet.

- Katy Milkman, Ph.D.'s research on bundling.

- A study showing those spending time outside felt happier.

- A study showing helping another person makes feel like you have more time.

- A study showing we are distracted about 50% of the time.

- A study showing having phones on the table leads to unhappiness.

- Cassie's research on happiness from extraordinary vs. ordinary experiences.

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