Time Smart Quotes

“Nothing has changed about the choice except what you’ve spent to get the tickets: time in the first case, money in the second. What this and other experiments confirm is what you might expect: we are more sensitive to small losses of money than small losses of time. We feel we’ve lost more if we choose cheaper tickets than we do if we choose tickets based on working fewer hours. You probably felt this when you were making the ticket choice. Two hundred dollars is a lot to give up. On the other hand, fifteen hours of time isn’t that much more than five hours.”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“People who are time poor are less happy, less productive, and more stressed-out.6 They exercise less, eat fattier food, and have a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease.7 Time”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“Clock-time people use schedules that are defined by the hours of the day—the clock.23 They don’t move on from an activity merely because it feels like the “right” thing to do; rather, they move on because it’s 1:30 and that’s when they’re slated to move on.”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“No matter our age, education, or income, we share the same reality: none of us knows how much time we have left. One day, time runs out and tomorrow never comes. This is one of the core discoveries I’ve made researching time and money: we don’t understand well that time is our most valuable resource, and it is finite. Chasing money is valuable to a point, but it’s an infinite errand. You can always try to get more—and research shows people do that, no matter how much money they have already. Given how precious time is, we should put it first. But many of us focus on our careers, constantly giving up more of our time in exchange for more money or productivity.”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“When we try to enjoy a birthday dinner, notifications about our friends’ tropical vacation photos make our pasta taste less delicious. When we try to choose a restaurant for our next date, the endless ocean of reviews and ratings leads us to spend more time choosing our meals than savoring them. When we try to have meaningful time off with friends and family, our alerts from work create guilt and dread over what we’re not getting done.”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“總而言之，要努力實現把時間擺在金錢之上這項艱難挑戰，你可以時時提醒自己，重視時間不光只是為了自己，當你懂得重視時間，你也會為家人、朋友、同事、社會，還有地球的福祉做出貢獻。”
― Ashley Whillans, 從容心態: 不焦慮，不窮忙，8個習慣從小處改變，人生每個階段都零匱乏感本

“證明個人的時間充裕感對所有人都有利，”
― Ashley Whillans, 從容心態: 不焦慮，不窮忙，8個習慣從小處改變，人生每個階段都零匱乏感本

“所有時間與金錢的取捨，都深深影響我們在當下、在接下來幾天、在一生當中所能獲得的幸福感。”
― Ashley Whillans, 從容心態: 不焦慮，不窮忙，8個習慣從小處改變，人生每個階段都零匱乏感本

“Screen addiction alone hasn’t caused the time famine. Another trap driving us into time poverty is the cultural obsession with work and making money.”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“and a bad employee (“Am I hanging out with my kids too much? Will that promotion go to someone else?”). It also takes time to cognitively recover from shifting our minds away from the present to some other stress-inducing activity.25 People end up enjoying their free time less and, when asked to reflect on it, estimate that they had less free time than they actually did.26 That’s how invasive the technology time trap is: time confetti makes us feel even more time impoverished than we actually are.”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“Thinking about work while trying to relax induces panic, because feelings of time poverty are caused by how well activities fit together in our mind. If we are trying to be a committed parent while our work email goes off, we can’t help thinking we should be working on our next deadline instead of being present with our child. This conflict makes us feel like a bad parent (“Why am I thinking about work while trying to hang out with my kid?”)”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“The effects and costs of time poverty are so stark that researchers now compare it to a famine—a severe, drastic shortage of time affecting all of society—that carries many of the attendant negative consequences that a natural disaster produces.11”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“Promotes job satisfaction. People who value time work the same number of hours as people who value money. Ironically, those who value time often make more income than those who value money, because they are more likely to pursue careers they love and so they work with less stress, are more productive and creative, and are less likely to quit.7”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“Promotes relationship satisfaction. Time-focused people have happier spouses and better sex lives than money-focused people. Couples who spend money on time-saving services spend more quality time together and derive greater happiness from their relationships. Time-saving purchases can even erase some of the unhappiness of having an unsupportive spouse. My research suggests that paying for a house cleaner might do as much for your marriage as learning how to be”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“time-centric mindset: Promotes happiness. People gain about half as much happiness from valuing time more than money as they would from being married.3 And this boost holds across demographics: it’s not explained by the amount of money people make, their educational background, the number of kids they have living at home, or their marital status.”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“at time affluence: the state of having and using time meaningfully. Who is time affluent? A few people. What do they do differently? For one, they spend more time eating. And how does time affluence change them? No spoiler: they’re much, much happier.”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“We all want different things in life, and each of us wants different things at different times in our lives. The best choice will vary. And”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

“Collectively researchers call this phenomenon time poverty, and it is chronic.”
― Ashley Whillans, Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life