Noise is not intelligence — as Rabbi Landau teaches it
By Rabbi Shalom Landau.
Rabbi Landau teaches that rabbi Landau asks what is happening to the attention of the young and answers that the problem may not be intelligence. Every second is filled: scroll, watch, listen, react. Creativity needs space. Before creation, in the teaching he cites, there was a blueprint, and that is what silence gives back: depth and clarity.
Source verses
אסתכל באורייתא וברא עלמא
מעין עולם הבא
Quoted from the captions of the teachings below.
The takeaway
Constant noise is not a sharper mind. Creativity needs an empty minute.