Time management and time abundance are at the center of this conversation with <a href="http://lauravanderkam.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Laura Vanderkam</a>, bestselling author and time-use researcher.Laura Vanderkam has spent over a decade studying how people actually spend their time — tracking her own hours for 11 years and collecting data from thousands of others along the way. Her new book,&nbsp;<a href="http://lauravanderkam.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance</a>, makes the case that time isn't the scarce resource we assume it is, and that shifting how you see it changes how you live it.In this conversation, we cover:<ul><li>The lottery ticket reframe&nbsp;— why Laura argues we should treat the time we've been given as an unearned windfall to manage, not a resource we're constantly running out of.</li><li>The "not actually more overworked" argument&nbsp;— what a century of time-use data really shows, and why the story you tell yourself about having no time matters more than the data itself.</li><li>Complexity isn't the enemy, chaos is&nbsp;— Laura's circus metaphor for running a full, complicated life without it feeling like it's running you.</li><li>Dream big, plan small&nbsp;— how reading&nbsp;War and Peace&nbsp;one short chapter a day (the same time it takes to brush your teeth) is the model for tackling anything that feels too big to start.</li><li>Active patience&nbsp;— Laura opens up about a brutal year of chronic pain and the hardest lesson in the book: sometimes the answer isn't a better system, it's time itself doing its work.</li></ul>This one's for anyone who's ever ended a Tuesday feeling like the whole evening just disappeared. Grab&nbsp;Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance&nbsp;wherever books are sold, and find more of Laura's work — including her podcast,&nbsp;Before Breakfast&nbsp;— at <a href="http://lauravanderkam.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lauravanderkam.com</a>.Connect with Erik:<ul><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikjfisher" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="https://www.threads.com/@erikjfisher" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Threads</a></li><li><a href="http://facebook.com/erikjfisher" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/erikjfisher.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bluesky</a></li></ul>This Podcast is Powered By:<ul><li><a href="http://beyondthetodolist.com/brainfm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brain.fm - 20% off your first month</a></li><li><a href="http://beyondthetodolist.com/descript" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Descript</a></li><li><a href="http://beyondthetodolist.com/descript101" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Descript 101</a></li><li><a href="https://get.castmagic.io/erikjfisher" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Castmagic</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ecamm.com/mac/ecammlive/?fp_ref=erik97" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ecamm</a></li><li><a href="https://www.podpage.com/?via=erik-fisher" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Podpage</a></li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/3SGEEbr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rodecaster Pro</a></li></ul>Grab Shortcasts from Beyond The To-Do List by Blinkist:<a href="http://beyondthetodolist.com/blinkist" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://beyondthetodolist.com/blinkist</a>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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