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I'd like to begin with a true story that some of you DC area folks may remember.

This took place in Washington DC Metro Station in 2007 where a man played violin.

He played six Bach pieces for 45 minutes.

And during the time he was playing those pieces, about 2,000 people went through the Metro

station and most of them, they're on their way to work and only six people stopped to listen

for a very short time.

And there were a few children that stopped but their parents quickly hurried them along.

So no one knew it but the violin player with Joshua Bell and he, you know, one of the greatest

musicians in the world.

He was playing some incredibly intricate, amazing Bach pieces and he was playing it on a violin

worth $3.5 million and just a couple of days earlier he had played in Boston with a seat's

average of $100 a person.

So here he is in the Metro and pretty much nobody stopped.

So he was in Cognito as part of a Washington Post social experiment about how our society

experiences beauty and it brought up an important question which is if we don't have a moment

to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, how much do we miss?

Really?

And if we think of our day and how we move through our day and for most of us and we kind

of are aware that we're rushing forward, you can feel it, you can feel your bodies on

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