Trailer: How To Start Over

How to Age Up

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

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

4.0 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

In this series, Atlantic staff writer Olga Khazan analyzes what it takes to change our relationships, our work, and our perspective—with a practical approach to one of life’s greatest mysteries: how to start over. Change can be really hard. Inertia is powerful, mortgages and marriages are long-term, and personality traits can feel pretty hardwired. But we’re in an era characterized by change. This series is your guide to starting over in the ways you’ve always wanted, why change is so hard, and whether it is, sometimes, overrated. This series was produced by Rebecca Rashid and hosted by Olga Khazan. Editing by A.C. Valdez and Claudine Ebeid. Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Sound design by Matthew Simonson. If you have any questions, stories, or feedback, please email us at howtopodcast@theatlantic.com or leave us a voicemail at 925-967-2091. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm Arthur Brooks, Harvard professor and happiness correspondent at The Atlantic.
0:11.4	You may remember me from the first season of this show, How to Build a Happy Life.
0:16.0	Today, I'm here to officially announce season two of the show, with a new host, meet Atlantic
0:21.4	staff writer Olga Hassan.
0:23.0	Hey Arthur, I'm excited to take over podcast hosting duties this season.
0:27.6	We're coming out of a long period where the luckiest among us were confined to our homes,
0:32.4	left to ruminate over everything that's right and wrong about ourselves and our relationships
0:36.6	and the people around us.
0:38.3	I found myself sort of itching for a reset.
0:40.8	Olga, you're killing me here.
0:42.5	What is the show called?
0:44.3	It's called How to Start Over.
0:52.0	I sent him this email that basically said, I'm a bossy, demanding woman and you just need
0:59.5	to know that upfront.
1:01.7	That story reminds me of I had an ex-boyfriend who one time told me, the thing I like about
1:07.2	you is that you're not anxious at all and I'm probably the most anxious person who's
1:11.2	ever lived.
1:12.7	Last summer, I went on a journey to change my own personality and if I learned one thing,
1:18.8	it's that change challenges our natural instincts.
1:22.2	It forces us to be introspective and it makes us realize just how hesitant we can be.
1:27.8	Becoming a new parent can be challenging as it is.
1:30.4	But what is it like when you struggle with your own parents?
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