Commuting is an incredible time-waster, says Lewis Richmond in
Work as a Spiritual Practice (Broadway Books): "If you are the average American, your commute is 40 minutes each way. Nearly an hour and a half of your life, five days a week, 49 weeks a year. Add up all that time in the course of 45-year work life it comes to 16,538 hours. That's nearly two full years of our life, to and from work."