The Psychology of Silence: Why the Most Powerful Thing You Can Do Is Say Nothing
By Qurat-ul-ain
We live in a world that is terrified of silence. Every moment of quiet gets filled with music, with scrolling, with conversation, with noise. We wear earphones the second we step outside. We turn on the TV not to watch it, but just to have something playing in the background. We check our phones mid-sentence, mid-meal, mid-thought. And yet, and this is what fascinates me deeply the most, powerful …