TED
talk of the month: April.

"Laura Vanderkam"

"How to gain control of your own free time."

Between careers and kids, many women feel that they are too busy to cram in anything else. To test the truth of this feeling, author Laura Vanderkam began logging her time for each of the 168 hours of the week.

Among her surprising findings: we retroactively overestimate the amount of time spent stressing about work while underestimating our available downtime.

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