http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/02/can-sound-waves-change-your-life.html

You sit (in a car, even) doing something else and at the end of the first, second or tenth listen, you are transformed, seeing the world in new ways. I marvel at this every time it happens to me–a good audiobook is a game changer. A good non-fiction audiobook gets you in sync with the author, slowing down your consumption and making the ideas more real. And for many people, it’s a lot less forbidding than cracking open a book.