The Atlantic is in the present day launching the fifth season of its well-liked How To podcast sequence with The way to Maintain Time, an exploration of our relationship with time and the right way to reclaim it. For the brand new season, The Atlantic’s Becca Rashid returns as co-host (and producer), now joined by Atlantic contributing author Ian Bogost. The way to Maintain Time follows the present’s previous seasons, which have explored such associated subjects as the right way to construct a contented life (with Arthur C. Brooks), the right way to discuss to individuals (with Julie Beck), and the right way to begin over (with Olga Khazan).
Over the course of six episodes, in The way to Maintain Time, Becca and Ian will look into basic questions round our relationship with time, together with why we are able to really feel like there’s by no means sufficient time in a day; what cultural myths get in the best way of utilizing time to construct connections; why so many people are compelled to file time and doc our lives; and even how an understanding of theoretical physics can inform our relationship with time, the universe, and ourselves.
The primary episode, which is now obtainable, discusses the time-maximizing myths of the fashionable period––notably, the concept some good future exists during which we’re “on prime of all the things” and our time is absolutely in our management. The writer Oliver Burkeman argues that this romantic considering is precisely what makes it difficult to keep away from future-focused considering and simply lean into the second. The episode additional explores the right way to rethink time wasted as time nicely spent.
With an purpose to make self-reflection and introspection an important part of day by day life, the How To sequence supplies insights from social scientists, writers, and a variety of specialists on how to consider our lives, how to consider ourselves, and the right way to reside nicely with others. The fifth season arrives because the fruits of an formidable 12 months of audio choices at The Atlantic. In Could, The Atlantic relaunched its flagship podcast, Radio Atlantic, with Hanna Rosin as the brand new host. Earlier within the 12 months was the launch of the narrative podcast Holy Week, hosted by Vann R. Newkirk II, in regards to the uprisings that adopted the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and the way these seven days––one of the crucial fiery, disruptive, and contentious weeks in American historical past––diverted the course of a social revolution.
Episodes of The way to Maintain Time might be launched every Monday, and listeners can subscribe right here or wherever they hearken to podcasts.
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