Time Management: Trading Time Scarcity for Abundance with Laura Vanderkam

Time management and time abundance are at the center of this conversation with Laura Vanderkam (http://lauravanderkam.com) , 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, Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance (http://lauravanderkam.com) , 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: • The lottery ticket reframe — 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. • The "not actually more overworked" argument — 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. • Complexity isn't the enemy, chaos is — Laura's circus metaphor for running a full, complicated life without it feeling like it's running you. • Dream big, plan small — how reading War and Peace 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. • Active patience — 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. This one's for anyone who's ever ended a Tuesday feeling like the whole evening just disappeared. Grab Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance wherever books are sold, and find more of Laura's work — including her podcast, Before Breakfast — at lauravanderkam.com (http://lauravanderkam.com) . Connect with Erik: • LinkedIn (  / erikjfisher  ) • Threads (https://www.threads.com/@erikjfisher) • Facebook (  / erikjfisher  ) • Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/erikjfisher....) This Podcast is Powered By: • Brain.fm - 20% off your first month (http://beyondthetodolist.com/brainfm) • Descript (http://beyondthetodolist.com/descript) • Descript 101 (http://beyondthetodolist.com/descript101) • Castmagic (https://get.castmagic.io/erikjfisher) • Ecamm (https://www.ecamm.com/mac/ecammlive/?...) • Podpage (https://www.podpage.com/?via=erik-fisher) • Rodecaster Pro (https://amzn.to/3SGEEbr) Grab Shortcasts from Beyond The To-Do List by Blinkist: http://beyondthetodolist.com/blinkist