The Atlantic is these days launching the 5th season of its well-liked How To podcast sequence with Learn how to Stay Time, an exploration of our dating with time and how one can reclaim it. For the brand new season, The Atlantic’s Becca Rashid returns as co-host (and manufacturer), now joined by means of Atlantic contributing creator Ian Bogost. Learn how to Stay Time follows the display’s previous seasons, that have explored such similar subjects as how one can construct a cheerful existence (with Arthur C. Brooks), how one can communicate to folks (with Julie Beck), and how one can get started over (with Olga Khazan).

Over the process six episodes, in Learn how to Stay Time, Becca and Ian will glance into elementary questions round our dating with time, together with why we will be able to really feel like there’s by no means sufficient time in an afternoon; what cultural myths get in the best way of the use of time to construct connections; why such a lot of people are forced to document time and file our lives; or even how an figuring out of theoretical physics can tell our dating with time, the universe, and ourselves.

The primary episode, which is now to be had, discusses the time-maximizing myths of the trendy generation––particularly, the concept some best possible destiny exists through which we’re “on best of the whole thing” and our time is totally in our keep an eye on. The writer 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 instant. The episode additional explores how one can reconsider time wasted as time smartly spent.

With an goal to make self-reflection and introspection a very important part of day by day existence, the How To sequence supplies insights from social scientists, writers, and a variety of mavens on how one can take into accounts our lives, how one can take into accounts ourselves, and how one can are living smartly with others. The 5th season arrives because the end result of an formidable yr of audio choices at The Atlantic. In Might, The Atlantic relaunched its flagship podcast, Radio Atlantic, with Hanna Rosin as the brand new host. Previous within the yr was once the release of the narrative podcast Holy Week, hosted by means of Vann R. Newkirk II, in regards to the uprisings that adopted the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and the way the ones seven days––one of the fiery, disruptive, and contentious weeks in American historical past––diverted the process a social revolution.

Episodes of Learn how to Stay Time shall be launched each and every Monday, and listeners can subscribe right here or anywhere they pay attention to podcasts.

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