The Atlantic is as we speak launching the fifth season of its fashionable How To podcast sequence with The right way to Maintain Time, an exploration of our relationship with time and the 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 right way to Maintain Time follows the present’s previous seasons, which have explored such associated subjects as the way to construct a contented life (with Arthur C. Brooks), the way to discuss to individuals (with Julie Beck), and the way to begin over (with Olga Khazan).

Over the course of six episodes, in The right way to Maintain 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 document 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 out there, discusses the time-maximizing myths of the trendy period––notably, the concept that some good future exists during which we’re “on high of every part” and our time is totally in our management. The writer 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 way to rethink time wasted as time effectively spent.

With an goal to make self-reflection and introspection a significant part of every day life, the How To sequence supplies insights from social scientists, writers, and a spread of specialists on how to consider our lives, how to consider ourselves, and the way to stay effectively with others. The fifth season arrives because the fruits of an formidable 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––one of the fiery, disruptive, and contentious weeks in American historical past––diverted the course of a social revolution.

Episodes of The right way to Maintain Time will probably be launched every Monday, and listeners can subscribe right here or wherever they hearken to podcasts.

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