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Silence – Justin Zorn & Leigh Marz

Freedom Matters

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The Cost of Silence

Cognitive scientists have been onto this for some time now, they've known that there's very much an upper limit of what can hold our attention. We're filtering out 11 million bits of information every second according to cognitive scientists like Chik Set Mihai. And then at the same time, our ability to process to filter through it, our attentional networks, hasn't increased. So our attention is really that scarce commodity. Where we put our attention is what we are attending to in our lives. It feels so intuitive that silence is necessary to really see how to solve the hardest questions. Yet, the information economy is snowballing and sometimes it feels impossible to slow down.

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