What Pico Iyer has said about Digital distraction
1 quote · 1 episode · Nov 6, 2026
Pico Iyer, British-born travel writer and essayist, author of Aflame: Learning from Silence, has been quoted on Digital distraction once in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on November 6, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Iyer recommends sitting without devices for 20 minutes each morning, claiming it transforms the rest of the day.
“just sit quietly without your devices for 20 minutes every morning, setting a tone for the day”
TED Radio Hour: Escaping the modern world and your noisy mind (Nov 6, 2026) · Listen from 11:55
Episodes
Escaping the modern world and your noisy mindTED Radio Hour · Nov 6, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with Pico Iyer, Sarah Edmondson and Lehua Kamalu, and airs Shonda Rhimes's talk, about escape, silence, cults, voyaging and burnout.
Pico Iyer on other topics
- Silence and solitude · 4 quotes