Why What Matters Most Is Almost Never the Loudest | John R. Miles - EP 825
The episode explores how society consistently overlooks quiet, enduring value in favor of flashy, immediate spectacle, using the viral story of Joshua Bell playing unrecognized in a subway to illustrate the psychological concept of 'salience'—our bias toward the visible over the valuable.
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