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How To Build a Happy Life: Spend Time on What You Value

How To Build a Happy Life: Spend Time on What You Value

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We use our time to race against the clock of productivity—which may be the one thing that holds us back from enjoying the free time we crave.

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We try to use our time wisely—both at work and in leisure—but we
often waste it. We may blame work for stripping us of recreation,
but when valuable free time comes around, we can often revert back
to more work. What explains the gap between how we use our time and
how we want to use our time? A conversation with Harvard Business
School professor Ashley Whillans helps us analyze our complex
relationship with time and how to orient our time use around what
we value. This episode was produced by Rebecca Rashid and is
hosted by Arthur Brooks. Editing by A.C. Valdez and Claudine Ebeid.
Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Engineering by Matthew
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