{"product_id":"the-time-tax-how-modern-life-steals-your-hours-9798247594604","title":"The Time Tax: How Modern Life Steals Your Hours","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James Aldridge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Self-Management - Time Management\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn expos� of the hidden costs draining your life-and how to reclaim what's yours. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery day, invisible forces extract hours from your life. Your phone captures attention you meant to spend elsewhere. Decisions multiply until choosing becomes a burden. Subscriptions, obligations, and possessions accumulate into a maintenance tax you never agreed to pay. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Aldridge identifies eight distinct \"time taxes\" that modern life levies on the unwary-and provides a systematic framework for reducing each one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on research from behavioral economics, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience, THE TIME TAX reveals: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - Why your phone is designed to capture-not serve-your attention\u003cbr\u003e - How the multiplication of choice consumes hours that choosing was meant to save\u003cbr\u003e - The hidden friction embedded in \"frictionless\" convenience\u003cbr\u003e - Why productivity optimization often costs more time than it saves\u003cbr\u003e - The compound interest of depletion and the economics of recovery \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not another productivity manual promising to squeeze more from your hours. It is a guide to keeping more of the hours you have.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47778876063895,"sku":"9798247594604","price":1144.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798247594604.webp?v=1778031770","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-time-tax-how-modern-life-steals-your-hours-9798247594604","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}