In the UK, researchers from the Centre for Time Use Research linked time-use diaries with the respondents’ assessments of enjoyment, on a scale from 1 to 7, to better understand the connection between time use and well-being. The chart here, which we’ve adapted from the book ‘What We Really Do All Day’ , by professors Jonathan Gershuny and Oriel Sullivan, shows the results. The estimates correspond to average reported levels of enjoyment for each activity, with confidence intervals. 5 Sunku vertinti šią knygą, nes iš vienos pusės - labai patinka, iš kitos - labai nepatinka. Vaikai labai mielai ją skaito ir netgi amžiaus apribojimo kaipo tokio irgi nėra, tai yra saugus pirkinys, bet man ranka nekyla duoti daugiau, nei 3 žvaigždutes. In this episode, I speak with my former co-worker, Jessica, about her path to becoming a Project Manager at an energy storage start up. In college, Jessica majored in computer science and minored in ethics and philosophy. Like me, she worked as an analyst at a boutique financial litigation firm after college, but after two years decided that it was time to move on. In deciding what she wanted to do next, Jessica looked to find a job where she felt more mission-aligned and where she could achieve better work-life balance. Now at Form Energy, she focuses on commercial strategy, business development and customer acquisition.

You will be come an energetic being with a consciousness. And not just this consciousness you have now, but all the experiences you’ve ever had in every life you will reclaim when you get there. This is not surprising – most of us try to split our days into “work, rest and fun”, and so there are some predictable patterns. We spend the most time working and sleeping; and paid work, housework, leisure, eating and sleeping take together 80-90% of the 1440 minutes that we all have available every day.

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Differences in demographics, education and economic prosperity all contribute to these inequalities in work and time use. But what’s clear in the chart here is that there are also some differences in time use that are not well explained by economic or demographic differences. In the UK, for example, people spend more time working than in France; but in both countries people report spending a similar amount of time on leisure activities.

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But beyond this, and more importantly, this confirms that time-use is informative about well-being. Whatever the system, just finding out if you have a place to sleep or not can take several hours out of each day. And, if you find out you won’t be able to stay that night, you need to scramble to make other arrangements.