How to Be Awesome at Your Job

884: How to Beat Distraction and Make Every Moment More Fulfilling with Dr. Cassie Holmes


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Cassie Holmes shares powerful strategies for finding more meaning and fulfillment from your hours. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) Why more time doesn’t make us more happy. 

2) Two tricks to make drudgery feel more enjoyable. 

3) How to keep distractions from hijacking your attention. 


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— ABOUT CASSIE — 

Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, an award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness, and author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most

Happier Hour was selected as a Forbes Must-Read and a Next Big Idea Club Must-Read for 2022, as well as an Amazon Best Business Book of 2022. It’s also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Today Show, CBS Mornings, and much other media. 

Holmes’s academic research has been widely published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets as The Economist, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and more. The course that she developed and now teaches, Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, is among UCLA’s most popular for MBAs. Prior to joining UCLA, Cassie was a tenured faculty member at Wharton, and she has a Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Columbia.  

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

• Study: “Having Too Little or Too Much Time Is Linked to Lower Subjective Well-Being” with Marissa A. Sharif and Hal Hershfield 

• Course: Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design 

• LinkedIn: Cassie Holmes 

• Website: CassieMHolmes.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Study: American Time Use Survey 

• Book: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns 

• Book: The Hours: A Novel by Michael Cunningham 

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