Happier Hour

How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most

By: Cassie Holmes

Narrated by: Cassie Holmes

Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

Learn how to reframe your time around life’s happiest moments to build days that aren’t just full but fulfilling with this “joyful guide” (Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author) that is the antidote to overscheduling.

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.” Since we can’t add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives as richer?

Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Professor Cassie Holmes demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Happier Hour provides empirically based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to:

-Optimally spend your hours and feel confident in those choices

-Sidestep distractions

-Create and savor moments of joy

-Design your schedule with purpose

-Look back on your years without regrets

Enlivened by Holmes’s upbeat narrative and groundbreaking research, Happier Hour “is filled with loads and loads of practical, evidence-based advice for how to live better by investing in what really matters. It’s the kind of book that can change your life for the better” (Laurie Santos, Yale professor and host of The Happiness Lab podcast).

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Cassie Mogilner Holmes. All rights reserved. (P)2022 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Critic reviews

"Author/narrator Cassie Holmes uses her skills as an entertaining professor to perform her new audiobook on how to make your life happier and more fulfilling. Based on Holmes’s courses at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, this audiobook is designed to be experienced within a busy day. With practical advice and real-life anecdotes, the ideas from this audiobook are fairly easy to apply. Holmes’s narration of her own work is direct and smart, showcasing her bright style and aptitude for breaking down the concepts of happiness into a format that is fun and easy to understand. With the author’s sharp wit and emotional range, as well as the fascinating information she provides, this audiobook is educational and a joy to experience."—AudioFile Magazine

vary well done

i recommend after listening to also get the book great book. the story telling and data are inspiring

Recommend the content, didn't love the audiobook

some great advice here. tough as an audiobook, because it is hard to reference things you want to follow up on later. author has some anoying vocal habits... would appreciate better diction, less vocal fry, and not trailing off at end of sentances.

overall, would recommend hard copy book.

Great book! Love the research approach to happiness.

Great book. I loved learning the science and evidence perspective that backed up what makes us happier and the correlations between our relationships, work, hobbies and attitude. This book helped me realize and identify things that truly bring me happiness and how to structure my time to bring about that happiness more often.

Excellent listen!

I needed this book to remind me what is important in life. It describes an idealistic way to organize your time. I will incorporate many of Cassie’s suggestions and utilize the tools but some of her advice is just not realistic to my daily routines or work schedule. It’s not a one size fits all approach but rather find what speaks to you and try your best to live a happier hour each day.

More than a typical book, a program for change

More than a book, it's an entire workshop on how to be happier. If you're serious about a happier life, reading this and doing the self-exploration exercises can actually make a difference.

Life Changing

This is beautifully written and read perfectly by the author. Captivating and inspiring! I found myself sitting in the driveway just to listen to a few more minutes at the end of the work day. I highly recommend this to everyone!

Slow start, excellent ending

If the beginning feels slow to you, keep reading! The research and suggested application of the findings was excellent

Painful reading

the reading nearly distracts from the worthy content. The author’s voice was not made for audiobooks

Best book on happiness

I’ve studied happiness for a long time.

This book is arguably the best.

Partly because it’s the most recent.

Block off 2-5 hours everyday for happiness.

This advice is life changing.

Only part of the book I didn’t like was the anecdote about the couple who got a honeymoon ticket to a 5-star resort in Bali…. But they never used the tickets because they were too busy.

So to be happy…. Use the tickets.

I, and many others, don’t have to be told to use those tickets to Bali to be happy.

Then again, if you’re reading this audiobook, you’re probably not destitute.

But that doesn’t mean we all have unused tickets to five-star resorts.

More like unused movie tickets.

Good book.

A top 3 lifetime favorite book! Life changing!

I could not recommend this book more highly! Every chapter is packed with incredible, life changing insight. This book contains easy to understand, practical to apply advice that is science-based and resonates deeply. If you want to improve the quality of the rest of your life in six hours, listen to this book.