Cadre Today- Sound Vs Silence

Hey, hey, good morning, cadre. How are we doing today? How are you doing? I hope you're doing great. I really do. Remember, if you're not doing great, there's opportunity, there's perspective, there is something in your not doing great that you have that you don't have when you are doing great. That's something you can put to use today. Rebecca, nice to see you. I see a lot of people just jumped on in, and the only name that I can see, because it went bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. There's Rebecca. There's T.

Norr. There's Maff y. People are bopping on in for a little... What do we got? Wednesday morning, cadre, today. My name's JC. If we've never shared time in space together before, even though Jules, you and I have quite a few times, thank you for letting me spend some time with you today. I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad that you're here, Cafe Marisa Skoll. I know what I know, and I care about you. Seventeen words kick us off pretty much every single day here in the cadre sphere. We see each other.

There's a gladness that we're doing it together. We risk to think that we know things, and then we say, "You know what? We care about you. We cad re care about you, but cadre is a special group of people with a special intention, and you are a part of that," which means by you being here, you're risking to say that you care about these other people that you don't know yet to. Today, I want to talk about two things. Dr. Jessica Green, how are you, my friend? Today, I want to talk about two things.

Sound, hey, Theresa, and silence. I want to talk about sound and silence. Now, I'm a music person, and I'm a teacher person, and I'm a word person, so I listen to a lot of sound, but I also listen to a lot of silence. Matt T appy, how are you, my friend? Nice to see you jumping on in here. Sound, and silence. I could say those two words a million times, a million different ways. I could say we're going to talk about sound and silence, but if I would say it that way, I wouldn't be acknowledging that both of them have worth, because if I say we're going to talk about sound and silence, what did I not include there?

I didn't include that. I didn't include silence. So, it's the reason why I always say whenever I'm talking about these two things, which are two of my favorite things in the world, I always say we're going to talk about sound and silence. I'm curious. You've heard me say the word sound and silence about 17 times by now. Can you share some thoughts on those two words in the chat? When you think about sound and silence , what do you think about? Which one do you spend more time paying attention to in the world?

Do you pay more attention to the sounds that are being made? Or the silence that is being made? I'm going to hit my own pause button right there while you're typing. Now , I'm going to say I just said you pay more attention to the sound that's being made of the silence that's being made. Culturally, we often don't think that silence is made. We think that silence is the absence of sound. And I would say the absolute opposite. Our species is a lot better at sound being the normal. I like thinking of it this way.

Sound is the absence of silence. Our chattering mind, our chattering world, our belief that we need to be creating something like this in order to have worth, I say phooey. I say the absolute opposite. People's power is within their silence. Notice I didn't say this. People's power is within their silence. I said people's power is within their silence. Victor Frankl said way back in the trauma times that our power is within between something happening and our reaction to it. Our power is in between something happening and us stretching that space before we react.

Now, I'm going to be silenced. I'm going to echo the things that you have shared. Maffy says I just keep singing. Hello, darkness, my old friend . I've come to talk with you again. Think about that lyric. Darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again. How do you talk to the darkness? How do you talk to the silence with your ears not with your mouth? Theresa says silence has become my haven or once it was a threat. I love sound in the form of music and kind conversation. Cafe Marisa says I listen for silence.

Nikki says morning. Tappy says both can be beneficial, but both can be scary. Depends on the best word here. Tappy that I think you just shared is my perspective. Right? Yeah, our perspective, which is ever changing and is always ours, ever changing and always ours sets up the value of sound and silence. There are times our voice has to be heard. And there are times we have to create silence. Marisa says I find peace with silence. There's so much sound sometimes I crave silence. Yeah. And sometimes vice versa.

There are times I get in my car and I need this. There are times I get in my car like on Sunday morning and I need to put on fall type of music because I need something to make this moment make sense. T North says more leaning into silence while driving than having to fill that silence. Yeah, filling the silence or emptying the sound. Both those acts are active. It 's not silence exists until we put sound into it. Sound exists until we lather it with silence. T North I kind of like both of those leaving into silence or leaning into silence.

Both those things have have a very clear action to them. But as I always like to leave one little morsel for y'all. We could talk about sound and silence forever. Ooh, here I just said we could talk about sound and silence. We could exist in the internal dialogue on sound and silence as well. Here's the morsel for the day. Provide yourself the shift in perception that that silence is the absence of sound. Because if you stop there you're missing half the puzzle. Silence is the absence of sound. And sound is the absence of silence.

There are times when one of those things bears more fruit and provides more light and hope in this world. From a majority at least 51% of people think their power is within their sound. They don't consider the fact that silence has a lot of power to. May you exist in both today.