Is silence a tool?

I wonder how you do when you do nothing.

I wonder how you hear when you hear nothing.

I wonder how you can use silence as a means to reach higher ends of activity.

After all, in the world where there seems to be no limit to what creativity can stretch, and e. g. new web apps are generated once-in-a-minute alpha-beta-gamma versions, and Facebook owns you (or at least your attention ;), will time offline be the sparks of space where the truly big and generative insight breakthroughs appear?

Fixed like glue at the screen, I have experienced that you mostly are a trap of old pattern and thoughts just doing what you do the same manner as yesterday, while actually just go and wash the dishes can make you think the unthinkable, and taking a shower gets you to a new idea you never had visited in your over-noised head before.

Just some thought - silence maybe is the best way to separate very silent, almost humming, little signals from the noise you get drowned in.

So - off this blog, out and think the unthinkable, before you do the undoable!

Peace,
Anders

PS. My list of "these tools I do use" will be published as a big update, now when I found my everydayness web experience merge, and listing "Web 2.007" as this year's list. Actually, that name came to me while writing this blog post. Maybe it was latent while I was sleeping, who knows? Now, I brought it to surface :). DS.