The Atlantic is right this moment launching the fifth season of its standard How To podcast sequence with Easy methods to Preserve 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. Easy methods to Preserve 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 speak to individuals (with Julie Beck), and the right way to begin over (with Olga Khazan).
Over the course of six episodes, in Easy methods to Preserve Time, Becca and Ian will look into elementary questions round our relationship with time, together with why we will 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 wherein we’re “on high of all the pieces” and our time is totally in our management. The creator Oliver Burkeman argues that this romantic pondering is strictly what makes it difficult to keep away from future-focused pondering and simply lean into the second. The episode additional explores the right way to rethink time wasted as time effectively spent.
With an goal to make self-reflection and introspection a significant part of day by day life, the How To sequence gives insights from social scientists, writers, and a variety of consultants on how to consider our lives, how to consider ourselves, and the right way to reside effectively with others. The fifth season arrives because the fruits of an formidable 12 months of audio choices at The Atlantic. In Might, 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 fiery, disruptive, and contentious weeks in American historical past––diverted the course of a social revolution.
Episodes of Easy methods to Preserve Time will probably be launched every Monday, and listeners can subscribe right here or wherever they take heed to podcasts.
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