{"id":4631,"date":"2016-05-24T11:43:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T08:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\/en\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2016-05-24T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T08:46:37","slug":"science-says-silence-much-important-brains-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\/en\/science-says-silence-much-important-brains-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Says Silence Is Much More Important To Our Brains Than We Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 2011, the Finish Tourist Board ran a campaign that used silence as a marketing \u2018product\u2019. They sort to entice people to visit Finland and experience the beauty of this silent land. They released a series of photographs of single figures in the nature and used the slogan \u201cSilence, Please\u201d. A tag line was added by Simon Anholt, an international country branding consultant, \u201cNo talking, but action. Eva Kiviranta the manager of the social media for VisitFinland.com said: \u201cWe decided, instead of saying that it\u2019s really empty and really quiet and nobody is talking about anything here, let\u2019s embrace it and make it a good thing\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/silence2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4635\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4635 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/silence2-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"silence2\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/silence2-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.visitsaimaa.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/silence2.jpg 725w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/377243\/science-says-silence-much-more-important-our-brains-than-thought\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole article from Lifehack!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011, the Finish Tourist Board ran a campaign..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"relatedcontent":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-media-hits-gb","9":"priority-3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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