We all complain about how busy we are. There is simply too much to do, yet the to-do list keeps growing. We wish there were more than 24 hours in the day!
But some new research suggests that it’s possible to change that feeling - not by working faster, or longer hours, but by spending some of our precious time helping other people.
That is what Cassie Mogilner of University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found out in her research along with Zoe Chance of Yale and Michael Norton of Harvard. In their experiments, people who had spent time helping someone else actually reported to feel that they had more time than those who spent it on themselves or spent it in a wasteful way.
"It is counter-intuitive. They objectively have less time because they gave some of it away", explains Mogilner. "The reason that the results suggest that we got this effect is because spending time on others makes one feel more effective, more capable and competent."
But some new research suggests that it’s possible to change that feeling - not by working faster, or longer hours, but by spending some of our precious time helping other people.
That is what Cassie Mogilner of University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found out in her research along with Zoe Chance of Yale and Michael Norton of Harvard. In their experiments, people who had spent time helping someone else actually reported to feel that they had more time than those who spent it on themselves or spent it in a wasteful way.
"It is counter-intuitive. They objectively have less time because they gave some of it away", explains Mogilner. "The reason that the results suggest that we got this effect is because spending time on others makes one feel more effective, more capable and competent."
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