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Dec 2023
37m 52s

How to Keep Time: How to Look Busy

THE ATLANTIC
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Many of us complain about being too busy—and about not having enough time to do the things we really want to do. But has busyness become an excuse for our inability to focus on what matters?  According to Neeru Paharia, a marketing professor at Arizona State University, time is a sort of luxury good—the more of it you have, the more valuable you are. But her ... Show More
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