Name: Date:

TED Talk
“How to gain control of your free time”
By author Laura Vanderkam
https://tinyurl.com/szvawbk
1. What does it mean to “find an extra hour in the day”?
That as we can find time to do fun stuff, we can also find an extra hour to do
productive things

2. Vanderkam disagrees with the above tactic. What is her theory about finding
time for everything we want to do? (finish the below quote)

“We don’t build the lives we want by saving time,

3. How is time elastic?

4. What does Vanderkam mean when she says “time is a choice”?

5. Pretend it’s the end of your NEXT year of school. You had an amazing year.
List out 3-5 five things you did to make it such a successful year.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

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6. Pretend it’s the end of the NEXT year of your life. It was an amazing year for
your personal life. List out 3-5 five things you did to make it such a
successful year.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

7. Look through everything you have written so far: everything you wish you had
time for and future actions that will lead to academic and personal success.
Decide which are the most important and fill out the chart below.

Academic/Career Relationships Self

1. 1. 1.

2. 2. 2.

8. Write each into your schedule for next week. Spread items out as you need to.
If you want to get in shape, don’t schedule 1.5 hours of exercise on one day.
Spread it out with 30-minute sessions over three different days in the week.

Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat.