Eric Liu: I've gotten better at recognizing, oh, it's happening and then saying to myself, what you're looking for is not on this device. Just to recognize whatever you need is not here. It's a really profound way for me to then go, okay, where might it be? Right. So we were talking, Eric, with the neuroscientist, psychologist duo, Adam Gazali and Larry Rosen. And they found in their research, one thing they really focus on is how human beings are driven for what they call information rewards,. In very much the same way that many other animals seek food and juice rewards in a forest. Even though for us, it's not
Leigh Marz and Justin Zorn discuss their book, Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise, explore the different types of noise we all experience in our lives, and why we need to find silence amidst all the noise.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
- How silence can bring us to place of expansion and openness rather than contraction
- Remembering that silence is always here and accessible and is more than just the absense of noise
- Understanding the three types of noise: auditory, information, and internal
- How we can practice noticing the noise around us and adjust our reaction to it
- Important strategies for dealing with the infinitie informatioal noise in the world
- Why we need to learn Feeling into what truly brings us quiet, what signals alert us that we’re taking in too much noise!
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