Question. Meetings, calls, kids, dogs, errands ______ and all those emails! Who doesn’’t feel starved for time these days? But a new study suggests that you can feel like you have more time— by ______some to others. The research is in the journal Psychological Science. There really are only 24 hours in a day—seven or eight of which are (ideally) spent sleeping. And a time commitment does take time. But researchers found that if people felt like they had done something for others, their ______ was that they had gotten more done than people who killed time, spent time on themselves or got ______ free time. And that made them feel like they had more time overall. You don’t even have to spend your whole Sunday ______. The helping tasks in the study took only about 5 to 15 minutes. They things ______ like editing a student’s ______ or writing a note to a sick child. Time donors also felt like they could do more with their time, making them even more willing to give time in the future.
