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Samuel Vance Audiobooks

Quiet the Noise: a one-hour reset for a cluttered mind

1 audiobook reviewed

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Personal Development

Who is Samuel Vance?

An hour and four minutes is barely a listen at all by the standards of personal development, where the convention runs closer to eight or ten hours. That brevity reads as a choice rather than a shortfall. Quiet the Noise is built to be taken in at a single sitting, which is arguably the only sensible format for a work whose subject is mental clutter.

Samuel Vance is filed with us under personal development alone, without the business or wellness tags that usually travel alongside it, and the focused shelving matches a focused promise. The title is a straightforward instruction: identify the noise, reduce it. No elaborate system is implied, and for a listener already overwhelmed, that restraint is a large part of the appeal.

Samuel Vance in audiobooks

Elizabeth Stockton narrates. In work of this kind the pace of the reading is close to being the message itself, since a calm subject read briskly undermines everything it is trying to say.

Ratings have yet to gather here, this being a recent arrival, so the shelf below shows the live position rather than any average.

Take it on a walk, a commute, or a quiet hour at the end of a difficult week. It is short enough to be repeated whenever the noise creeps back, which is rather the point. Anyone put off by the sheer length of most self-help audio will appreciate the discipline on display. What is available is listed underneath.