What’s more, it can interfere with your ability to make rational decisions.īecause of this, feeling pressed for time can lead you to make bad choices about how you use it, and this can quickly become a vicious cycle. Research shows that when you are highly aware of time passing, it makes you less compassionate toward others. Keeping an eye on the clock, even subconsciously, can lead to a sharp drop in performance. Regardless of whether you’re working excessive hours or not, believing that you are short on time has real, damaging effects. When working mothers kept time diaries for several weeks, they found they had much more time with their children than they thought.
Women work more, partly because more women have full-time jobs than they did 50 years ago - but their unpaid labor has dropped by double digits. Men today work about 12 hours less per week than they did in the 1970s. Since the mid-1960s, researchers have conducted time-use surveys in the US and have a pretty accurate understanding of average work schedules. If you immediately read this and thought, “I really am working too many hours. This may be difficult to accept, but many of us think we work more hours than we actually do. Connect with Rometty at /GinniRometty, /ginnirometty and linkedin.Many people in our industrialized world have what I call “busyness delusion,” or the mistaken belief that we are busier than we really are.Get free shipping on all our speaker titles - including Rometty’s Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World - when you shop our independent partner bookstore at Bookpeople.
Headlee’s TEDx talk sharing ten ways to have a better conversation has over twenty million total views to date. She also served as cohost of the national morning news show The Takeaway from PRI and WNYC, and anchored presidential coverage in 2012 for PBS World Channel. In her twenty-year career in public radio, she has been the executive producer of On Second Thought at Georgia Public Radio, and anchored programs including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She is a professional speaker, and also the author of Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism-and How to Do It, Do Nothing, Heard Mentality, and We Need to Talk. Celeste Headlee is a communication and human nature expert, and an award-winning journalist.
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