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How to manifest your best year yet

How to manifest your best year yet

It's Been a Minute vor 8 Monaten

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If you want something badly enough, should you have it?

Today, Brittany is investigating so-called "manifestation." It's
this popular belief that if you want something badly enough, it'll
come to you. But here's the thing: our relationship to the internet
and algorithms is creating a feedback loop that actually makes our
own dreams seem more...possible? But where's the line between
dreams, reality, and the internet?

Brittany calls on Tara Isabella Burton, an author and
journalist, and New York Magazine's Rebecca Jennings to
get to the bottom of this trend: the appeal of manifestation, its
symbiotic relationship with the internet, and why it might make us
less aware of our humanity.

This episode originally aired on March 31, 2025.

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