{"podcast":{"title":"Keep Talking","slug":"keep-talking-1331245","podcast_index_feed_id":1331245,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/20210520_005222_a8e19a4cd6d9a7bc6e33dc39aa33e2b3.jpg","author":"Dan Riley","episode_count":155,"summary":"\"Keep Talking\" exists to have conversations that might help to make a better society and a better culture. I believe that each guest has important information and stories to make public. And it's something that I want to share.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T02:20:25.098457+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 138: Pico Iyer - What We Can Learn From Silence","slug":"episode-138-pico-iyer-what-we-can-learn-from-silence","published_at":"2025-01-17T10:01:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-138-pico-iyer-what-we-can-learn-from-silence","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans/1848379","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/14586/1848379/humans/2025_01_15_14_02_40_b2bdb035-d1d9-4019-b073-f98f0354c356.mp3","summary":"Pico Iyer is a novelist, a travel writer, and the author of many books, including his most recent, \"Aflame: Learning From Silence,\" which is the subject of this conversation. ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (00:00) Intro (00:58) Santa Barbara, June 1990 (04:25) The New Camaldoli Hermitage (07:30) Pico's life when he first went to New Camaldoli (11:08) Silence elicits gratitude, what's shared and what's essential (16:10) Intentionally turning off technology (22:39) Creating a wise amount of \"cathedral time\" (25:53) Embracing silence as a non-religious person (32:03) Leonard Cohen exploring his inner landscape in silence (36:05) How Pico has developed from his 100+ hermitage visits (41:35) Saying no in order to prioritize space for silence (47:07) How to begin a life with more silence and contemplation (50:41) Silence as an antidote to despair (54:36) What Pico has learned from the Dalai Lama","meta_description":"Pico Iyer is a novelist, a travel writer, and the author of many books, including his most recent, \"Aflame: Learning From Silence,\" which is the subject o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3472,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keep-talking-1331245/episodes/episode-138-pico-iyer-what-we-can-learn-from-silence/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-138-pico-iyer-what-we-can-learn-from-silence.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}