The Talking and Thinking Gap — Daniel Stillman
But if you then test them on what they read, you’ll discover that the faster you make them go, the less they will understand. More speed means less comprehension.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Only silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformism:
So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t
To extend McLuhan’s already stretched bodily metaphors, now that all may speak, we have moved from the age of the ear (orality) to the eye (text) and now to the mouth (networked discourse). Our challenge is to bring our abilities together in coherent conversation, informed by what we hear and ask together. For if all speak and none listen, there is
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Our thinking mind is limited by two Big Bad Bottlenecks: our attention and our working memory.