The human mind is a time machine. It can go back into your past and tap into experiences from your distant self. It can then combine those thoughts into ideas that have never before existed. These ideas, when acted upon, become your future. We call this phenomenon creativity.
One of the requisites for accessing this machine may be silence. By silence, I mean the absence of ambient audible sound. Those moments when other stimuli are not distracting us from the past and future. Humans today rarely have those occasions.
Let's quickly examine a 21st-century human’s typical day. One awakens and immediately plugs into their phone to see what’s happened while they were sleeping. They review emails, messages, and other information that’s been sent to them. They plug into various media outlets to review what the rest of the world has been doing.