Cassie Holmes, Author of “Happier Hour”

Today, my guest is Cassie Holmes, a Professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, an award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness, and bestselling author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.

Cassie’s research examines such questions as how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of one’s lifetime, and how much happiness people enjoy from extraordinary versus ordinary experiences. Cassie developed and teaches the course Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, which helps students thrive in their personal and professional lives and has become one of UCLA’s most popular courses among MBAs and Executive MBAs alike. Cassie has a Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and a B.A. from Columbia University.