Title: The Lost Art of Stillness in a Hectic World Reference : 📖 [The Art of Stillness by Pico Iyer  In a world obsessed with hustle, we’ve forgotten how to be still. Not just physically—but mentally, emotionally, spiritually. Silence now feels like a void we rush to fill with noise: a podcast, a playlist, a scrolling session on Instagram.  We call it productivity, but often, it’s just distraction. I only started noticing this when I read Pico Iyer’s quietly brilliant book . The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere. In it, Iyer—a travel writer—makes the case that some of the most meaningful journeys happen not through miles but through moments.  He writes: > “Going nowhere... isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply. >  Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness That line hit me like a small truth bomb. I’d been doing the opposite—cramming my days with bac...