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How to Know What’s Real

Best of “How To”: Spend Time on What You Value

How to Know What’s Real

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Education, Self-improvement, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This new season of How To is a collection of our favorite episodes from past seasons—a best-of series focused on slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our hectic lives. This first episode, from our third season called How to Build a Happy Life, features the Harvard Business School professor Ashley Whillans in conversation with host Arthur Brooks. The two explore how to think differently about the time you crave and the time you actually have. Write to us at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by PepsiCo.

0:02.8

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0:10.2

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0:19.9

Hey, it's Megan Garber. I'm one of the co-hosts from How to Know What's Real.

0:24.9

This new season of the how-to series is a special one. We've assembled some of our favorite episodes from past seasons.

0:32.1

A Best-Duff collection around the themes of slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our hectic lives.

0:39.4

Things I know I can use some reminders about.

0:43.0

Each week, over the next six weeks, we'll be sharing an episode from our archives.

0:48.4

And here's the first.

0:50.0

It's from our third season, How to Build a Happy Life, and it's called How to Spend Time on What You Value.

0:56.5

Take a listen as host Arthur Brooks and producer Becca Rashid.

1:00.7

Explore what might be holding people back from finding and taking advantage of the free time we all seem to crave.

1:20.4

Okay, Arthur, I have a question for you. Yeah. If you had one extra hour today, how would you use it?

1:27.7

How would I use it or how should I use it Becca if I had an extra hour a day

1:37.7

I would spend it sitting somewhere in nature

1:43.2

wow I find time to FaceTime my mother.

1:47.0

If I had one extra hour every day, I would spend it walking around my city aimlessly.

1:53.0

For me, sometimes my commute requires me to leave when it's dark and then to get home when it's dark.

1:59.0

But if I had an extra hour,

2:01.7

it would be beautiful to walk down, you know,

2:05.0

light, sunlit, drenched paths with my wife.

2:15.4

This is How to Build a Happy Life.

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