{"id":96066,"date":"2018-08-20T12:27:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T17:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=96066"},"modified":"2026-10-02T10:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:03:14","slug":"erling-kagge-interview-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/self-improvement\/erling-kagge-interview-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #433: The Adventure of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

We live in an age of noise. Not just audible noise, but visual noise. It seems like you can\u2019t go anywhere these days without something or someone vying for your attention. My guest today thinks all this noise has made us a bit crazy, and that we need to re-capture the power of silence in our lives. He came to this realization while traveling alone, by foot, for fifty days to the South Pole. Since having that experience of what he initially found to be a disturbing level of silence, he thinks other people need more space for quietude in their lives.<\/p>\n

His name is Erling Kagge. He\u2019s an adventurer, philosopher, and the author of the book Silence: In the Age of Noise<\/i><\/a>. Today on the show Erling shares his adventures of being the first person to walk to the North Pole, the South Pole, and Mount Everest alone and why he thinks adventure is within reach of anyone who desires it. We also discuss why creating intentional friction and discomfort is a necessity in our modern world. We then shift gears to discussing the exploration of a different kind of terrain: that of silence. Erling shares what experiencing the silence of being alone in the South Pole is like, what philosophers have said about silence, why people should embrace the challenge of seeking silence, and how to find it even in our noisy modern world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We live in an age of noise. Not just audible noise, but visual noise. It seems like you can\u2019t go anywhere these days without something or someone vying for your attention. 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