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Silence, the Forgotten Human Skill
Jitske Kramer |
TEDxWassenaar
• September 2020
I am on a quest. As an anthropologist I want to unravel how I, how we, can be human together with the people we love, but also with the ones we don’t like that much… I travel the world, to understand how people shape cultures, and how cultures shape people. To find ways how we can be human together, in a constructive and peaceful way.
In this talk I want to focus on the role and importance of: silence. Sometimes I feel that silence is like a forgotten human skill. Talk rules over listening. Knowing rules over not knowing. Sound rules over silence. But if we leave silence out of our mix of behavior, levels of trust, creativity and energy go down. We need silence just as much as we need sound. It’s the combination that makes the music.
During my travels I learned a lot about different ways to treat silence.
Today I will share with you my most important lessons I learned in India, Togo and the UK. But first, let me tell you about the start of my personal journey to appreciate silence.