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Happier Hour is now out in paperback!
For some happy hours cozying up with Happier Hour, or to give the gift of happier hours to someone you care about, buy here:
To turn your time spent commuting or doing chores into happier hours, buy the audiobook (narrated by Cassie) here:
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Stop feeling rushed and distracted, and invest your time to live more meaningfully.
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” —like we never have enough. Since we can’t add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives as richer? Is it possible to spend our days so they aren’t just full, but are fulfilling?
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 regret
Enlivened by Holmes’s upbeat narrative and ground-breaking research, Happier Hour will teach you how small changes can have an enormous impact—helping you feel less overwhelmed, more present, and more satisfied with your life overall—things that money can’t buy. It all starts by transforming just one hour into a happier hour.
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
A Must-Read according to Forbes, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Next Big Idea Club, Behavioral Scientist, and more
“Terrific advice from one of my favorite scientists about how to make best use of our most limited resource: time.”
̶ Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grit
“With our schedules overly full, Holmes shares research and easy strategies for not only how to manage, but tap into deeper meaning. Happier Hour is a joyful guide on how to spend hours to live a more satisfying life.”
̶ Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of FAIR PLAY
“Cassie Holmes is an expert on time, and this readable, practical book might just make you rethink how you spend yours.”
̶ Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN and host of the podcast WorkLife
“This book is an absolute gem – useful, evidence-based, and a pleasure to read. Armed with the insights conveyed in Happier Hour, we can all find greater fulfillment in the time we have.”
̶ Katy Milkman, nationally bestselling author of HOW TO CHANGE
“A refreshingly novel approach on how to make your life rich. Happier Hour shows you step-by-step how to wisely invest your most precious resource—time.”
̶ Jonah Berger, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of CONTAGIOUS
"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, Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast
̶ The Wall Street Journal Book Review
̶ Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"Vital….thoughtful exercises and commonsense advice."
̶ Booklist
̶ CBS Mornings
“I found her research about spending our time with intention to be interesting and enlightening… It’s so important to continuously pursue self-growth while taking care of our mental health.”
̶ Maria Shriver
