THE POWER OF SILENCE: HOW DISRUPTION FUELS TRANSFORMATION | Dayna Del Val | TEDxDuluth

In September of 2020, I spent two weeks alone on a farmstead in rural North Dakota at a writing retreat. I was 14 miles from the nearest town of 1,200 people. When I say alone, I mean alone. In 14 days, I saw three humans, a farmer, a census worker, and my husband who came to stay for one night. Those two weeks were the single most uninterrupted period of silence I had ever spent. Physically I had my devices. I had the internet. But psychologically, emotionally, spiritually I had stepped away from my demand ...