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Hello everyone welcome to another DailyJim It is thursday may 19th 11 55 PM Eastern daylight time here in michigan and I have no idea what to talk about today. I was going to talk about how I'm still feeling a little maybe flush in the face, a little lightheaded. Um It's hard to know. Is that like I said, is that something from an eye infection? Is that something from my body just slowing down and finally starting to recover from just being stressed out? Is it something else? I mean is it Covid? I doubt it. I haven't really been in other spaces with people without a mask for months now. Outside. Yeah, but not in person, not like indoors. Um Yeah, I think sometimes we just don't know what to talk about but we still make stuff up. Oh maybe that's a good thing to talk about how there will be so many times where we just say stuff and we pretend like we know what we're talking about. Are we pretend like we are interested in something or we pretend that we are. Just full of some type of conversation where we really just don't have much to say. I think we've talked about this before in some capacity but this how in the U. S. American culture a lot of times there could be the awkward silence. The idea to fill the space if there's too much quiet. Um but I remember I think it was in europe where someone corrected me, he said no no Jim That's very american thing. Like some of our cultures are very ok with silence, interesting. I laughed because this is the same place where I was running some workshops and to try to get people to sit still quietly for five minutes was really hard room of 30 people quiet for five minutes. Come on. Somebody will make a little joke and somebody will laugh and somebody whispered to somebody else. And actually one of the activities I would do is have people go outside. It was something like I gave him his listening exercise and give him like 20 minutes. So the rules were Be outside for 20 minutes. Stay with your group of four people or so don't say a single word, you're not allowed to speak, Come back and you come back inside in 20 minutes ago. Hey it's hard, it's a lot harder than it looks. But some of my some of my favorite memories not only running other people through that experience but doing it myself with some other people silent walks are silent explorations outside.
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Does silence work on a podcast. Is there some desire to also fill in that space.
As I try to sit and give a little silence. The challenge with silence in the podcast is not knowing, okay, did my audio cut out? You know, my headphones not working anymore. Is the person still there? I can't see them. I can't sense them. Maybe if there's a a refrigerator or an air conditioning unit in the background humming then people can hear that. But otherwise ah maybe I should do this a little bit earlier in the day. So you're not getting this kind of ah half a week, fever dream explanation.
Uh huh You know, I think it's really interesting concept though of just silence in a space with somebody else, can be awkward maybe but silence on the internet, if I'm silent on twitter, meaning I'm not posting something or if I'm not replying or I'm not liking or if I'm silent on facebook or instagram people don't know I'm there. There's not a lot of analytics to get the subtle hints that somebody's paying attention. For example, if I post on facebook and nobody likes it or replies, I don't know they saw it. Some other platforms are a little better where twitter will show how many people have seen it. So I got to do this before the midnight chime. Some of these platforms are better at showing some of the subtle hints if someone is there, but.
Being silent and being silent on facebook, for example, if I haven't posted in a long time. If I'm silent in a room of people and then I finally speak up often more attention is given to me because I have been silent. Whereas if I'm silent on facebook or I'm silent on twitter, the algorithms don't necessarily promote that they don't necessarily want to promote the person who hasn't been speaking for a long time because, that person is not likely to get addicted to the platform maybe. And if that person is not addicted to the platform, then they're not addicted to getting other people addicted to paying attention and therefore not having enough ad space or revenue. Huh? I don't know. I I just think that slowing down and having silence can be nice sometimes as I've gone about a minute over and I think that's good enough for tonight. I hope you all have a great evening, day, morning, afternoon, wherever you are in the world when you're listening to this, take care.
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