Silence: In the Age of Noise

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This is a book about stillness, about quiet, about finding an escape from the endless babble of noise and chaos that is our digital life. And in that moment, find the ability to look inwards again, rather than ever outwards. The lost stillness of life Humans are social creatures. Being accessible can be a good thing. We are unable to function alone. Yet it’s important to be able to turn off your phone, sit down, not say anything, shut your eyes, breathe deeply a couple of times and attempt to think about something other than what you are normally thinking about.

On a sailing trip in the spring of 1986, pushing towards Cape Horn off the coast of Chile in the South Pacific Ocean, I was reminded of this. Early one morning, while alone on night watch between midnight and 4am, the world was dead silent. But then, I heard a sound that seemed like a long, deep breath just west of the boat. I had no idea what it could be. I turned 90 degrees in the direction of the sound and spotted a whale just off the starboard side. A mere calling distance away. It is easy to assume that the essence of technology is technology itself, but that is wrong. The essence is you and me. It’s about how we are altered by the technology we employ, what we hope to learn, our relationship with nature, those we love, the time we spend, the energy that is consumed and how much freedome we relinquish to technology. I believe silence is the new luxury. Silence is more exclusive and long lasting than other luxuries. knygą pavadinčiau įžvalgų apie tylą koncentratu. Man dažniausiai kur kas labiau patinka skaityti labiau praskiestą turinį ir iš jo pačiai išsirankioti tai, kas yra aktualu ir svarbu man. Šįkart tokios galimybės kaip ir nebuvo, nes viskas daugiau mažiau jau išrankiota ir patiekta. Knyga parašyta populiariu stiliumi, todėl lengvai skaitoma ir suprantama visiems. Ją perskaičius kaip ir nelieka abejonių, kad tyla yra svarbi ir tikrai verta bent jau pabandyti ją prisijaukinti. Tik man norėjosi galbūt šiek tiek kitokios knygos struktūros ir visko daugiau ir giliau!The alternative is to not think anything at all. You may call this meditation, yoga, mindfulness or merely common sense. It can be good. I take pleasure in meditating and practising yoga. I’ve also taken up the cousin to this practice – hypnosis – and hypnotised myself for 20 minutes to disconnect. That also works well. I lie there hovering a couple of centimetres above my bed each afternoon. Erling ยกตัวอย่างการทดลองหนึ่งที่เปิดให้ผู้ร่วมทดสอบเลือกระหว่างการนั่งอยู่ในห้องปิดเฉยๆ โดยไม่มีเสียงเพลงและไม่ทำอะไร กับยอมถูกช็อกไฟฟ้า (หลังผ่านประสบการณ์นั่งในห้องเงียบมาแล้วครั้งหนึ่ง) ผู้ร่วมทดสอบเกือบครึ่งกดปุ่มช็อกไฟฟ้าตัวเองเพื่อบรรเทาความรู้สึกเงียบเชียบนั้นลง Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge, who has voyaged to the South Pole all alone, on the importance of finding silence...

What is silence? Where is it? Why is it more important now than ever?” were three questions they wanted answered. From the Norwegian explorer, a stunning meditation on the power of silence and how to shut out the world My children hardly pause any more. They are always accessible, and almost always busy. “Everyone is the other, and no one is himself,” wrote the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. The three of them tend to sit in front of a screen – whether alone or together with others. I do it too. Become engulfed in my smartphone, enslave myself to my own tablet – as a consumer and at times as a producer. I am constantly interrupted, interruptions engendered by other interruptions. I rummage around in a world that has little to do with me. Attempt to be effective until I realise I won’t get any further regardless of how effective I’ve become. It feels like trying to find your way through fog on a mountain, without a compass at hand, and ending up walking around in circles. The goal is to be busy and effective, nothing else.

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How does one achieve silence in the everyday? While Kagge practices meditation, yoga, and going off into nature whenever possible, he also speaks about achieving "silence" while walking Oslo's busy streets or crawling through Manhattan's sewer system. I suppose this is some zen state that an experienced meditator can simply drop into. Or, to say it in a way that makes it sound slightly more achievable, simply comes from being particularly practiced in "tuning out the noise". Take a deep breath, and prepare to submerge yourself in Silence. Your own South Pole is out there, somewhere.