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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos - For Whom the Alarm Clock Tolls

For Whom the Alarm Clock Tolls

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

05/25/20 • 34 min

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'Time famine' is when you just don't feel you have a spare moment... and it can make you miserable. It's a feeling Dr Laurie Santos knows only too well, so she seeks help from her time affluence hero, Idler author Tom Hodgkinson.

Tom lives life to the full, but he ensures he carves out time to wander around, think, chat with friends and even take naps. He argues that 'idling' is vital to leading a happy, creative and productive existence. Is he right? And if so, what can we all do to break free from the tyranny of time?

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05/25/20 • 34 min

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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos - For Whom the Alarm Clock Tolls

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Pushkin. Looking back at my diary, Wednesday, February fifth, twenty twenty was a fairly ordinary day. And by fairly ordinary, I mean to say that my day was absolutely packed to the brim, which makes sense because I don't just have one amazing job. I have lots of them. I'm a professor and a research scientist. I run one of Yell's residential colleges, which means I have over four hundred students to take care of all the time. I travel a bunch for

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