Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
**Chris Guillebeau in conversation with Michael Gervais
discussing his book, “Time Anxiety: The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live”**
This event is taped with and audience on June 17.
VIRTUAL TICKETS (**US Orders Only**)
Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$46 Virtual Admission + signed book (**includes shipping to US addresses only**). Includes access to watch the event on June 24 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days.
**A powerful antidote to deadline dread, time guilt, and chronic rushing—from the New York Timesbestselling author of The $100 Startup**
**Chris Guillebeau** is the *New York Times* bestselling author of The $100 Startup, Side Hustle, and The Happiness of Pursuit, which have sold over one million copies worldwide. During a lifetime of self-employment that included a four-year commitment as a volunteer executive in West Africa, he visited every country in the world (193 in total) before his thirty-fifth birthday.
**Michael Gervais** is a sport and performance psychologist. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between the mind and human performance. He founded Finding Mastery, powered by a world-class team of Olympians, PhDs, psychologists and changemakers, to bring insights from the frontier of sport and performance into the business world. He is the host of the popular Finding Mastery podcast that explores the psychology of the world’s most extraordinary thinkers and doers. He is the author of The First Rule of Mastery, published by Harvard Business Review Press.
“Our relationship with time is one of the most important aspects of our lives. In Time Anxiety, Chris Guillebeau brilliantly investigates why it is so persistently vexing, offering concrete steps to deal with common challenges like deadline dread and chronic rushing while reassuring us that, amid all our angst, there is indeed time for a life well-lived. An invaluable, insightful book.”—**Gretchen Rubin**, New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project
In a world obsessed with squeezing the most out of every moment, the fear of falling behind can trap us in a paralyzing stress cycle. Incomplete to-do lists, unanswered emails, and unmet life goals haunt our thoughts, leaving us overstimulated and exhausted.
In Time Anxiety, Chris Guillebeau, author of the popular newsletter A Year of Mental Health, reveals that this pervasive sense of time scarcity stems not from a lack of hours in the day but from unrealistic expectations and misaligned priorities. Weaving together eye-opening research on time perception, executive functioning challenges, and the psychological roots of avoidance, he offers a bold path for redefining our relationship with the clock.
The first step is to build a tolerance for incomplete to-do lists and the inevitability of disappointing people, abandoning the goal of “catching up.” We have to set our own limits because no one else will.
Ultimately, Time Anxiety is a call to wake up from the trance of busyness and reclaim our most precious resource. By breaking the habits of overstressing, overdoing, and underliving, we can start savoring our limited time on earth.
