How to Beat Distraction
Presenter:
Cassie Holmes, Talks at Google
Time:
49:24
Summary
Professor Cassie Holmes discusses her book "Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most." 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, Cassie demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Happier Hour teaches you how small changes can have an enormous impact, helping you feel less overwhelmed, more present, and more satisfied with your life overall. It all starts by transforming just one hour into a happier hour.
Transcript
Hello, everyone, and thanks for joining this virtual talk at Google. I'm Daniel persik, a researcher here at Google and today I'm with Professor Cassie Holmes to discuss her new book, happier hour how to be distraction, expand your time and focus on what matters most. Dr. Holmes is a professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management, where she's an award winning teacher and researcher.
The basis for her book came from a very popular MBA class that she teaches on how to improve our lives. By changing how we perceive and invest our time. Her work on the intersection of time and happiness has been widely published in lead academic journals, and featured in such outlets as NPR, The Economist, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and more. With that, let's welcome Professor Holmes. I'm going to begin the conversation by asking some questions about the book. And then I will open it up to questions from the audience.