How to Reclaim Our Relationship with Time

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🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Time flies. Time is money. Time waits for no one. There is no shortage of aphorisms about time because we are consumed by the minutes, hours, days and years that constitute a life. We want to use time efficiently; we want to get the most out of it; we feel guilty wasting it. But maybe we should reclaim our relationship with time. That’s what co-hosts Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost argue for in the latest season of the Atlantic’s popular “How To” podcast series. In “How to Keep Time,” Rashid and Bogost examine whether hacks to be more productive work, how to optimize “free” time and why we struggle to comfortably do nothing. Set your clock and join us. Guests: Becca Rashid, co-host and producer, the Atlantic Magazine podcast "How to Keep Time" Ian Bogost, co-host, the Atlantic Magazine podcast "How to Keep Time." Bogost is a contributing editor at the Atlantic and a professor in arts and sciences at Washington University in St. Louis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.7	On your list of New Year's resolutions, have you resolved to make better use of your time? To be more productive, to schedule your day so not a moment is wasted? Before you commit to that resolution, you may want to listen to the new Atlantic Magazine podcast, How to Keep Time, which argues we should try to reclaim our relationship with time and even get comfortable with wasting it.
1:14.3	That's coming up in exactly five minutes and 30 seconds after this news. Welcome to Forum and Happy New Year. I'm Grace Juan in Formina Kim. In your life, you probably know people who seem to get to be great at managing their time.
1:44.9	They're efficient. They show up to appointments on the dot. There is not a moment in the day that is not
1:49.5	accounted for. And then there's the rest of us. Our relationship with time is a tricky one.
1:54.7	Sometimes it feels like there's not enough time. If only you had an extra hour, day, or year.
2:00.2	And there are moments when it feels like the clock is frozen and time has stopped.
2:04.7	When my children were little, I often thought that the days were going by at a glacial pace, but the years were whizzing by at light speed.
2:12.3	We all have a finite amount of time. How does knowing that affect the decisions we make about using time?
2:18.4	We're joined by the co-hosts of a new Atlantic podcast, How to Keep Time, which explores all that in the core
2:23.9	question. We're joined by Becca Rashid, a producer for The Atlantic. Hi, Becca. Hi, Grace. Thanks for
2:29.6	having me. Great to have you here. And Ian Bogost. He's a contributing editor for the Atlantic and a professor of arts and sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Hi, Ian.
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