Utkarsh Narang and a partner argue that constant noise and childhood conditioning have made overthinking an addiction. Eckhart Tolle called it the world's biggest addiction. Schools taught us to think constantly, leaving no room for silence or intuition.
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We're living in a day and age where the noise is so strong that we don't even have the space and the time for silence. As soon as there's silence, we feel like, what's next? What next noise can I switch on for myself? What do you think about this relationship that we have with noise and silence?
We're addicted to it. The biggest addiction— Eckhart Tolle says the biggest addiction we have in the world is overthinking. It's addictive. We're conditioned for it. We are We've been traumatized, most of us. How many people, times as a child, did your parents say, what are you thinking? Think, think! It's ingrained in us to think. In school, how many teachers told you to think? How many times were you punished for not thinking? What were you thinking? Whack! Yeah, so we were conditioned hard, hard to think, but we weren't conditioned hard to intuit. We weren't conditioned hard to be ourselves.