The Atlantic is right now launching the fifth season of its widespread How To podcast sequence with Learn how to Hold Time, an exploration of our relationship with time and methods 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. Learn how to Hold Time follows the present’s previous seasons, which have explored such associated matters as methods to construct a contented life (with Arthur C. Brooks), methods to discuss to individuals (with Julie Beck), and methods to begin over (with Olga Khazan).
Over the course of six episodes, in Learn how to Hold 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 trendy period––notably, the concept that some excellent future exists during which we’re “on high of all the pieces” and our time is absolutely in our management. The creator Oliver Burkeman argues that this romantic pondering is precisely what makes it difficult to keep away from future-focused pondering and simply lean into the second. The episode additional explores methods to rethink time wasted as time effectively spent.
With an goal to make self-reflection and introspection an important element of each day life, the How To sequence gives insights from social scientists, writers, and a variety of specialists on how to consider our lives, how to consider ourselves, and methods to dwell effectively with others. The fifth season arrives because the end result 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––probably the most fiery, disruptive, and contentious weeks in American historical past––diverted the course of a social revolution.
Episodes of Learn how to Hold Time can be launched every Monday, and listeners can subscribe right here or wherever they hearken to podcasts.
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