What is The Secret To Happiness?: with UCLA Professor Cassie Mogilner Holmes

Sep 8, 2022

Professor Cassie Mogilner Holmes is a professor of marketing and behavioral decision making at UCLA Anderson School of Management and author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters. Today she joins the pod to share ways that we can all become more time rich and lead happier, more fulfilling lives. She shares:

• What it means to be time rich and how we can make our time more meaningful.
  
• 3 specific habits you can start today to increase happiness.
  
• Why it’s important to take inventory of you spend your time.
  
• How much money you need to be happy.
  
• Why you have more time than you think you do (and how to discover where and when you have that time).
  
• Surface relationships vs deep connections and how they impact our happiness. 
  
• Why the arts are so important when it comes to happiness.
  
• Gender inequality when it comes to free time.
  
• Why learning to say no and protecting your time is paramount to happiness.
  
• Why we need to treat our time like diamonds.