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title: "SCOTOMAVILLE 01.10 - Creating Silence"
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created: "2020-04-14"
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category:
  - "Scotomaville"
  - "Mindfulness"
  - "Inner Voice"
summary: "In this short, focused episode Daniel teaches 'listening in the gap' — the space between the brain’s 400–600 words-per-minute processing speed and the 125 words-per-minute speaking rate. Using the concept of musical 'hooks' that loop endlessly in the mind, he shows how to create intentional inner silence by simply listening to your own breathing. This restores control over your inner voice and stops external noise (and internal chatter) from displacing your own thoughts and intuition."
keypoints:
  - "The brain processes 400-600 words per minute but speaks only ~125, leaving a large 'gap' of unused attention."
  - "Musical hooks and external noise (airplanes, boom boxes, inner loops) displace your own inner voice."
  - "'Listening in the gap' (simply hearing your own breath) seizes control of that extra processing power."
  - "Silence is not emptiness — it is the space where intuition, feelings, and the 'gestalt' of awareness can be felt."
  - "You are not powerless; you can choose to create silence instead of being subservient to other people’s 'music'."
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  - "scotomaville"
  - "creating-silence"
  - "listening-in-the-gap"
  - "inner-voice"
  - "mindfulness"
  - "meditation"
  - "emotional-vocabulary"
monomyth_stage: "01 - Ordinary World"
gameboard_position: "Camp -4: The Ordinary World"
truth_score: 88
entropy_score: "Low"
tone:
  sentiment: "Calm"
  emotions:
    - "Peaceful"
    - "Empowering"
  sycophancy_level: "None"
  notes: "Short, serene, and practical. Daniel speaks gently outdoors with a light breeze, modeling the very silence he is teaching."
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### Original YouTube Description
In music, a 'hook' is an intentionally addictive set of lyrics and beat. It sticks in our mind and plays over and over and over... It can be maddening. What can be done to stop the noise, the filler, the displacement of our own inner voice?

In this episode of Leaving Scotomaville, Daniel shares insights on how to create silence and regain control of your inner voice. You don't have to be subservient to other people's 'music'. Take charge and create silence.

Many intrusions are created by people that are totally into their 'thing'. Drag boats, airplanes, boom boxes, quad-runners, motorcycles, and many more invade our space, disrupt us from without. Headphones, earplugs and distance can do the trick on the outside, what about on the inside?

Media channels and creative artists line our active minds with lyrics and music. You are not powerless. You don't have to give in. You can get out of Scotomaville and begin creating your own inner silence. Here's a few ways to start.

https://scotomaville.com

### Cleaned Transcript
**Daniel:**  
I learned of a skill called 'listening in the gap' from Treena Kerr, wife of Graham Kerr, of "The Galloping Gourmet" who I used to work with. Depending on where you go for the statistic, it is said that our brains can process between 400 and 600 words per minute, but only speak about 125 words per minute. At this rate of spoken wpm, our brains are working a lot faster! This disparity or 'gap' is what Treena was referring to — the gap between what is going in and what you can deal with. That's at least 3 to 4 hundred wpm!

**Daniel:**  
That's an incredible opportunity to seize the attention that YOU have full control over. No one else can take that away from you. It's a fabulous thing to be able to get noise out of your head and go somewhere that is quiet. Because you can get in touch with all of those EXTRA WORDS THAT YOU HAVE! All of that extra processing. You can get in touch with what's going on down here (motioning to heart/chest)... this pathway of intuition and understanding and feelings and awareness and soaking in the 'gestalt' of it all. Just being.

**Daniel:**  
A dear friend who passed away several years ago, Bob Moab, used to say 'It's curious they call us human beings, not human doings.' And while you're being... aware, there's so much that you might aim your attention at, that abundance of processing in your mind!

**Daniel:**  
So one of the tools we're gonna give you, in probably the shortest lesson that I have... some call it meditation, some call it just being at peace, being still.

**Daniel:**  
One of the quickest ways that I know of in getting one of those musical hooks out of your brain — you know, the jingle that just won't leave you alone? One of the tips I have that I use to get rid of that noise is to listen... listen to your own lungs. Go someplace, just sit... and listen to your breathing.

**Daniel:**  
Take control of the gap between what's coming in and what you can process. Take control of that. You have abundant access and abundant processing and abundant intelligence. You have all of those things, and much more to put it to use in changing your destiny. It's a great tool.

**Daniel:**  
Thanks for joining me out of Scotomaville. You are much appreciated.

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**CODEX ENTRY**

**Date:** 2020-04-14  
**File:** SCOTOMAVILLE 01.10 - Creating Silence  
**Monomyth Stage:** 01 - Ordinary World  
**Gameboard Position:** Camp -4: The Ordinary World  
**MA5 Domain:** Initium  

**Summary:**  
Daniel introduces the simple but powerful practice of “listening in the gap” — using the brain’s unused processing capacity (400–600 wpm vs. 125 spoken) to create intentional inner silence and reclaim control of your own inner voice from external hooks and mental chatter.

**Key Insight:**  
Silence is not emptiness; it is the space where intuition, feelings, and the full “gestalt” of awareness can finally be heard. You already possess the tool — your own breath.

**Narrative Significance:**  
This shortest lesson in the series completes the opening awareness toolkit by giving viewers a micro-practice they can use instantly whenever a musical hook, worry loop, or external noise invades. It shifts the Scotomaville journey from managing triggers and fixation to actively cultivating the quiet inner space required for the rest of the personal Everest climb.

**INITIUM.**