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

Author: Cassie Holmes

Narrator: Cassie Holmes

Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/06/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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).

About Cassie Holmes

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 EconomistThe New York TimesThe Wall Street JournalThe AtlanticThe Washington Post, and more. Happier Hour is her first book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lydia on April 27, 2022

Cassie Homes what a great book and guide to making life and yourself happier. I worked at a job for thirty plus years and I wish I would have read your book then, although it has effected my life today even though I am retired. Taking the time to find happiness each day in my life has really enlight......more

Goodreads review by Aly on January 01, 2023

If I came across this book when I was 25, I have no doubt I would have gobbled up the all the talk about “optimization” and the arduous time-tracking activities proposed. But early-30s me had some problems with the way the author posed the idea that happiness is a choice. While there’s the briefest......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie’s on January 28, 2023

You might gain something useful from this book if you have never read any other self help and/or pop psychology book. Otherwise….......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on December 01, 2022

Finally, a self-help/time management book that includes the topic of parenting!! I loved the author’s personal sentiments about valuing time with young children as well, which felt particularly resonant to me. This brought some of the vibes of the book 4,000 Weeks coupled with practical actions indi......more

Goodreads review by Katy O. on September 11, 2022

(free review copy) This was EXACTLY what I needed as I transitioned from summer off back to the whirlwind of teaching, kids in school, sports and all the things. Time poverty is one of the things I dread most about this transition and Cassie Holmes does an excellent job of teaching us how to make th......more


Quotes

"Author/narrator Cassie Holmes uses her skills as an entertaining professor to perform her new audiobook on how to make your life happier and more fulfilling. Based on Holmes’s courses at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, this audiobook is designed to be experienced within a busy day. With practical advice and real-life anecdotes, the ideas from this audiobook are fairly easy to apply. Holmes’s narration of her own work is direct and smart, showcasing her bright style and aptitude for breaking down the concepts of happiness into a format that is fun and easy to understand. With the author’s sharp wit and emotional range, as well as the fascinating information she provides, this audiobook is educational and a joy to experience."