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Julian Treasure
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Ears are made not for hearing but for listening. Listening is an active skill, whereas hearing is passive. Listening is something that we have to work at - it's a relationship with sound. And yet, it's a skill that none of us are taught. Julian Treasure
Work Relationship Listening Made Active Ears Something None Sound Passive Hearing Taught Whereas Us Skill
The Hindus say, 'Nada brahma,' one translation of which is, 'The world is sound.' And in a way, that's true, because everything is vibrating. Julian Treasure
World Translation Everything Way Say True Because Hindus Sound Vibrating Which
If you want to be listened to, the first step is to listen well yourself. Julian Treasure
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A great deal of our work involves switching music off. Julian Treasure
Work Music Great Great Deal Our Involves Deal Off Switching
It's a common mistake to speak the same to everybody. We all have different filters. Julian Treasure
Mistake Speak Everybody Filters Same Common Different
My mother, in the last years of her life, became very negative, and it's hard to listen. I remember one day, I said to her, 'It's October 1 today,' and she said, 'I know, isn't it dreadful?' It's hard to listen when somebody's that negative. Julian Treasure
Life Today Day Remember Mother Negative Somebody One Day Dreadful Know She Became Said October Years Very Listen Hard Her Last
It's dangerous to generalise about sound because many of its effects work through association. These can be universal: we all instinctively associate any sudden, unexpected noise with danger and react with a release of fight/flight hormones, while most people find sounds like gentle rainfall or birdsong calming and reassuring. Julian Treasure
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You can detect a hostile listening or a bored listening or a tired listening or an excited and engaged listening. Julian Treasure
Tired You Listening Bored Detect Hostile Excited Engaged
There's a lot of research now showing that noise, and the lack of quiet working space, is one of the biggest issues for all office workers. Julian Treasure
Noise Space Research Issues Lot Quiet Office Lack Biggest Workers Working Showing Now
Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time. Julian Treasure
Time World Listening Passive Creating Activity
It is a mistake to assume that everyone listens like you do: your listening is as unique as your fingerprints, and so is everyone else's. Julian Treasure
You Mistake Listening Assume Else Everyone Fingerprints Like Listens Your Unique
Sound affects us physiologically, psychologically, cognitively, and behaviorally all the time. The sound around us is affecting us even though we're not conscious of it. Julian Treasure
Time Though Around Sound Affecting Affects Psychologically Us Even Conscious
Music is the most powerful sound there is, often inappropriately deployed. It's powerful for two reasons: you recognize it fast, and you associate it very powerfully. Julian Treasure
Music You Recognize Powerful Most Most Powerful Sound Very Often Deployed Reasons Fast Two Associate
We vote for politicians with lower voices, it's true, because we associate depth with power and with authority. Julian Treasure
Vote Power Politicians Voices True Because Authority Depth Lower Associate
Intention is very important in sound, in listening. When I married my wife, I promised her I would listen to her every day as if for the first time. Now that's something I fall short of on a daily basis. Julian Treasure
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I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future. Julian Treasure
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I'm totally obsessed with sound. It's my life. Julian Treasure
Life My Life Totally Obsessed Sound
Sadly, piped music in so many public spaces is often just more noise. Rarely is it carefully designed to enhance our experience; much more likely it is there because retailers have subscribed to an incorrect view that music makes people spend more. Julian Treasure
Music Noise Experience People Carefully Our Spend Rarely More Sadly Likely Because Makes Subscribed Often Just Spaces Public Much View Many Enhance Designed Incorrect
Music is designed to be listened to, so it's calling for attention all the time, syphoning off our very limited auditory bandwidth and elbowing aside our ability to listen to the voice in our head we need when we're doing mental work. Julian Treasure
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All of our physical rhythms are being affected by sound outside us all the time. Julian Treasure
Time Our Physical Outside Sound Affected Being Rhythms Us
If you're surrounded by noise all the time, it has a pretty bad effect on the spirit. Julian Treasure
Time You Noise Bad Pretty Spirit Effect Surrounded
I've heard many reports of police attending scenes of domestic violence where they've had to turn off music and televisions and radios. Noise tends to drive us a bit crazy. Julian Treasure
Music Crazy Noise Police Drive Bit Scenes Tends Had Attending Heard Off Domestic Reports Where Turn Turn-Off Us Many Violence
In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound. Julian Treasure
Day Spend One Day Architects Sound Years Five Train
We all like to look good. However, this basic human desire can often get in the way of our listening and our speaking. This tendency often evinces itself in two simple words: 'I know.' But if I know everything, what can I learn? Absolutely nothing. Julian Treasure
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The desire to be right can be very destructive in relationships. Julian Treasure
Relationships Destructive Very Right Desire
While interrupting is not always wrong, it should never become a habit. Julian Treasure
Become Habit Never Wrong Always While Should Interrupting
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