Ten Seconds of Silence: The Wall We Call Average | Claire Yoo | TEDxChadwick International School

How does the silence feel to you. Let's be honest for a second. Is it a bit strange.Did some of you think, "Uh-oh, did the mic die? Or did she forget her first line already?" We feel this way because most of us have been trained to fear even 10 seconds of nothing. When someone steps onto a red circle, we expect noise right away. A joke, a story, a big idea, talking, performing, filling the air.Somewhere along the way, we quietly decided this is the default. This is what we call normal. But here is the stran ...