Brian Eno
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1,303 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
Brian Eno’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Or she looks pretty interesting and I think I'm in love with her.
Feelings form very quickly, actually, and they form without really much volition on our part.
And they are, in fact, our first antennae, our first judgment of a situation, our first sense of whether it's dangerous or friendly or useful or useless.
is made on the basis of feelings and then after that we backfill with other information we find and we sometimes find that our feelings the quick response were were incorrect but surprisingly often we find that they were actually exactly on the money i knew that as soon as i saw her one thing that i was thinking about while you were talking is a way i think to say
So we're being told probably about 10 or 12,000 times a day what we ought to like, what other people like, what some people would prefer that we liked.
We're told that in the form of advertising, in the form of political messages, in the form of all of the things that try to persuade us to think or believe one thing rather than another.
It's the biggest industry in the Western world.
actually, persuasion.
And it's very easy in that flood, actually, of that tsunami of suggestions about what we ought to like to forget what we actually do like.
So I think what he's doing there, he's suggesting that
the deepest feelings we have are actually the most reliable things that we know about.
One of the things that happens when you're looking at art or listening to art, something connects to you and you think, that's what I really like.
That's what really moves me.
And I think when that happens, you should pay attention to that.
You should think, why do I really like that?
What does that mean that I like that thing?
What does that connect me to that's so important to me?
And we frequently don't do that because the distraction rate is so high.
There are so many things to think about all the time.
Yes.
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