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Give Time to Feel Less Time-Squeeze
Scientific American: Meetings, calls, kids, dogs, errands, exercise—and all those emails! Who doesn’t feel starved for time these days? But a new study suggests that you can feel like you have more time—by donating some
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Starved for Time? Give Some Away
The Wall Street Journal: A sense of ”time famine,” which has reached epidemic levels in modern society, can wreak havoc on one’s psychological and physical health. A new study suggests a counterintuitive remedy: Give some of your precious
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Giving Time Can Give You Time
We all know that our objective amount of time can’t be increased, but a new study suggests that volunteering our limited time—giving it away— may actually increase our sense of unhurried leisure.
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Something for the weekend
Financial Times: The lamentation that there are not enough hours in the day is a familiar one. Busy working schedules combined with family life often mean that individuals feel unable to commit to additional duties
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If We Feel Too Busy, It’s Probably Due to Having Too Much Free Time
Scientific American: Objectively time is constant. A minute is a minute. But when we have a lot to do, it usually feels like we have less time. Now a study finds an interesting wrinkle in
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Time flows uphill for remote Papua New Guinea tribe
New Scientist: “HERE and now”, “Back in the 1950s”, “Going forward”… Western languages are full of spatial metaphors for time, and whether you are, say, British, French or German, you no doubt think of the
