A one-minute gratitude habit costs about 6 hours a year. We ran the numbers against federal time-use data and what the studies say about dose.

Americans average 5.16 hours of leisure a day and 16 minutes of reading. Here is what 2 minutes of daily learning adds up to over a year.

Americans 65 to 74 have 6.9 hours of leisure a day, and 4.2 of it goes to TV. A daily fact by text is a small way to spend a little of it learning.

Using the 2025 American Time Use Survey, we ranked common habits by how many days a week the average American really does them. Exercise lands at 1.6.