Book Titles

Time Smart
How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

By Ashley Whillans

Year Published: 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1633698352
Categories: Happiness, Life, Time

49 Quotes Found

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Time Smart:

In the battle against technology and time confetti, our greatest weapon may be technology.

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Time Smart:

Engineering the default no is a powerful weapon in your battle for time affluence, but most of us are terrible at it.

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Time Smart:

It isn’t enough to build in more time for leisure. You must make sure you do everything you can to enjoy the leisure time you have cultivated.

086

Time Smart:

…thinking about the economic value of our leisure time can undermine our enjoyment of it, because we are constantly comparing the experience against some perceived expected value or ideal.

086

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Anything that takes us out of our present enjoyment of leisure time destroys its value and makes us less likely to want to engage in the behavior again in the future.

087

Time Smart:

We start conspiring against our own time the moment we enter the workforce.

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Job decisions, especially early ones, funnel us into a set of behaviors that are destined to make us time poor.

100

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…it is important to think about the happiness you might lose throughout your life if you choose having more money over having more time.

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Time Smart:

When deciding where to live, most people focus on the features of the house, as opposed to the features of the life the house will dictate.

104

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We tend to underestimate how quickly the joy of any new activity will dissipate.

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