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97: Cassie Holmes, Ph.D. — How to Live a Happier Life

October 07, 2022 by Cal Walters in Intentional Living

Cassie Mogilner Holmes is a Professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Cassie is an expert on time and happiness. Her 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. Across these inquiries, her findings highlight the joy that stems from interpersonal connection and paying attention to the present moment.

Cassie’s academic research on the role of time in cultivating well-being has been published in leading academic journals, including Psychological Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Journal of Consumer Research, and earned her the Early Career Award from both the Association of Consumer Research and the Society of Consumer Psychology. Cassie was identified by Poets & Quants as one of the best 40 business professors under 40, and popular accounts of her research have been featured on NPR and in such publications as The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Scientific American. 

Professor Cassie Holmes is the author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most, which is based on her wildly popular MBA course, “Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design.”

Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most
By Holmes, Cassie

Holmes is a faculty affiliate with The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the research, education, and practice of kindness.

Previously, Holmes was a tenured faculty member and award-winning teacher at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and a B.A. from Columbia.

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October 07, 2022 /Cal Walters
Happiness, Happier Hour, Time, Time Management, joy, life
Intentional Living
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#22: The New Science of Gratitude

November 26, 2019 by Cal Walters in Intentional Living

On this episode, Cal dives into the exciting new science of positive psychology and gratitude.  Saying we should be more thankful is easy advice to give -- similar to saying we should live in the moment -- but for some reason it is harder to practice on a regular basis.   Cal explores some of the key obstacles to most of us practicing gratitude and offers two practical, yet powerful, ways that we can begin practicing gratitude (and reaping the benefits of it) today.   Join Cal on a 30 day commitment to the daily practice of gratitude!  

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This week in the United States we celebrate Thanksgiving. It is a day to stop, reflect, and intentionally give thanks.

It is not hard to see the value in giving thanks. We teach our children this as soon as they are old enough to want things. We teach them to value what they have, and we hope they will learn to find the beauty in the smallest things. In our gut and in our heart, we know there is something inherently right about giving thanks.

In the past few decades, researches have discovered that the benefits of gratitude and positive thinking go far beyond our anecdotal experiences. Scientific studies by leading gratitude researcher Dr. Robert Emmons have shown incredible results from those who practice gratitude as little as one time per week. Studies show those who practice gratitude are 25% happier than those that do not.

Incredibly, those who take the time to think about and write down the things and people they are thankful for reported:

  • fewer health conditions;

  • spending more time exercising;

  • feeling more joyful, excited, determined, and strong;

  • feeling more optimistic about the coming week;

  • getting more sleep each night; and

  • a greater desire to help those around them.

On this episode of Intentional Living and Leadership, Cal discusses these new findings in positive psychology. He also discusses the greatest obstacles we face to practicing gratitude and two specific practices you can start today to make gratitude a very real part of your day (and your life).

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November 26, 2019 /Cal Walters
Gratitude, Happiness
Intentional Living
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