The Art of Doing Nothing

Pushkin. Hey Happiness Lab listeners, we're cruising through our special series on spring cleaning your happiness, and we're continuing our deep dive into the Happiness Lab archive to find well-being boosting insights that you might have missed. This week's classic episode takes on cleaning up one of the messiest most cluttered parts of our lives, our schedules. Ever had a week when it felt like you didn't have a single moment of downtime?

When it felt like your calendar was overflowing with endless meetings and to dos? Social scientists have a word for that awful feeling. They call it time famine. And studies show that time famine can make you miserable. But what would it look like?

like to spring clean your schedule, to carve out time to wander around, to chat with friends, to think about nothing in particular, or even to take an afternoon nap. That is what I explore in this Throwback Happiness Lab episode. So get ready to clean up those schedules and to break free from the tyranny of time in today's throwback episode, which is coming up right after the break. This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human. Looking back at my diary, Wednesday, February 5, 2020, was a fairly ordinary day.

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