The Time of Silence. How to Manage Your Attention in a World Full of Chaos

Our attention is the most promising currency. And it needs to be managed wisely: spent, saved, invested, gifted. At the same time, our free time drowns in informational noise, in news, social media, and meaningless shopping to relieve stress. So... what will remain if we remove all this from our lives? Artist and writer Jenny Odell shares her main discovery in life: how, by distancing ourselves from the logic of consumption and getting closer to one another, we obtain everything we truly wanted. “The Time of Silence” changes the perception of a world where time is money and utility. Before you is a revolutionary guide to freeing yourself from overwork, showing how to be not efficient, but happy. “Silence is not the absence of something, but the presence of everything.”