Thanks for writing this up! I’ve listened to a TTS version of it 😅.
I’m spending most of my “in between activities” time (walking, biking, eating, showering) listening to audiobooks/podcasts and to a lesser degree—music.
And for a long while I’ve been wondering about things similar to what you mention in the post:
Is constantly being subject to new information stimulus is detrimental to my ability to do “unconscious processing/problem-solving” (presumably the driver behind the “aha moments in the shower” phenomena/etc).
Does it reduce the rate at which I’m able to produce original ideas/thinking?
I don’t really have any conclusions/insights on this so far 🙁, but I’m excited to see people starting to explore the topic, and I’d be curious to hear your longer-term reflections on your self-experiments with silence!
Thanks for writing this up! I’ve listened to a TTS version of it 😅.
I’m spending most of my “in between activities” time (walking, biking, eating, showering) listening to audiobooks/podcasts and to a lesser degree—music.
And for a long while I’ve been wondering about things similar to what you mention in the post:
Is constantly being subject to new information stimulus is detrimental to my ability to do “unconscious processing/problem-solving” (presumably the driver behind the “aha moments in the shower” phenomena/etc).
Does it reduce the rate at which I’m able to produce original ideas/thinking?
I don’t really have any conclusions/insights on this so far 🙁, but I’m excited to see people starting to explore the topic, and I’d be curious to hear your longer-term reflections on your self-experiments with silence!
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i42Dfoh4HtsCAfXxL/babble seems tangentially related