The Atlantic is at this time launching the fifth season of its widespread How To podcast collection with Find out how to Preserve Time, an exploration of our relationship with time and tips on how 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. Find out how to Preserve Time follows the present’s previous seasons, which have explored such associated subjects as tips on how to construct a contented life (with Arthur C. Brooks), tips on how to discuss to individuals (with Julie Beck), and tips on how to begin over (with Olga Khazan).
Over the course of six episodes, in Find out how to Preserve Time, Becca and Ian will look into elementary 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 accessible, discusses the time-maximizing myths of the trendy period––notably, the concept some excellent future exists through which we’re “on high of the whole lot” and our time is absolutely in our management. The creator Oliver Burkeman argues that this romantic considering is strictly what makes it difficult to keep away from future-focused considering and simply lean into the second. The episode additional explores tips on how to rethink time wasted as time nicely spent.
With an purpose to make self-reflection and introspection a significant part of every day life, the How To collection supplies insights from social scientists, writers, and a variety of consultants on how to consider our lives, how to consider ourselves, and tips on how to stay nicely with others. The fifth season arrives because the end result of an bold yr 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 yr 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––probably the most fiery, disruptive, and contentious weeks in American historical past––diverted the course of a social revolution.
Episodes of Find out how to Preserve Time can be launched every Monday, and listeners can subscribe right here or wherever they take heed to podcasts.
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