We crave silence, yet most of us run the moment it arrives. In this episode, Brian González explores our uneasy relationship with quiet, from his childhood in Puerto Rico to his experience with silence as a danger in the Army to our modern-day itch for constant noise.

Blending science and storytelling, he explains why silence feels uncomfortable, how the brain's default mode network makes us wrestle with big questions, and why that discomfort is exactly what we need. Listeners will learn how silence heals, fosters new neural connections, and provides the fertile ground where meaning and creativity flourish.

Silence isn't emptiness. It's presence. It may also be the most radical gift we can give ourselves.