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Julian Treasure
American
Listening
Music
Noise
People
Time
You
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Conscious listening is very largely overlooked in the mainstream of education. It's such an important skill in life. And yet we expect children to pick it up from home or from peers informally.
Julian Treasure
Life
Education
Home
Listening
Important
Peers
Pick
Mainstream
Overlooked
Up
Very
Expect
Children
Skill
Largely
Conscious
It would be some sort of shock horror story if a child left school unable to read or write. But we do not teach explicitly, or test in the main, either speaking or - much more importantly - listening.
Julian Treasure
School
Listening
Unable
Would
Would-Be
Some
Horror
More
Write
Main
Read
Sort
Test
Importantly
Left
Shock
Child
Story
Either
Explicitly
Much
Teach
Speaking
Sound in a space affects us profoundly. It changes our heart rate, breathing, hormone secretion, brain waves. It affects our emotions and our cognition.
Julian Treasure
Heart
Emotions
Space
Changes
Our
Waves
Rate
Sound
Brain
Affects
Heart Rate
Breathing
Us
Cognition
Profoundly
People often mistake our mission at The Sound Agency for a crusade for silence, but actually, silence is in many ways just as bad as too much noise.
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Silence
Noise
Mistake
People
Too Much
Too
Our
Ways
Bad
Crusade
Mission
Sound
Often
Just
Agency
Much
Many
Actually
Most people think it's a linear relationship: I speak, you listen. Actually, it's a circle, because the way you listen affects how I speak, and the way I speak affects the way you listen.
Julian Treasure
Relationship
You
People
Speak
Circle
Think
Way
Most
Because
How
Linear
Affects
Listen
Actually
Retailers don't think about why they have music. There are a number of issues. It can be very powerful in the right place, where it is played appropriately.
Julian Treasure
Music
Think
Right Place
About
Powerful
Issues
Very
Where
Place
Why
Right
Played
Number
There's a little bit of protocol in the real world which is quite important. If you speak to me, we understand that we've entered into a social contract. But sound that you haven't given permission to receive is noise, and generally unwelcome.
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Me
You
Noise
Speak
World
Important
Bit
Entered
Given
Generally
Protocol
Understand
Unwelcome
Sound
Permission
Real
Contract
Quite
The Real World
Real World
Which
Little
Social
Little Bit
Social Contract
Receive
Without our natural soundscape, we are making ourselves tired, stressed, and frightened all at the same time.
Julian Treasure
Time
Tired
Natural
Our
Ourselves
Without
Making
Frightened
Same
Same Time
Stressed
By starting to pay attention to our natural soundscapes, businesses can reduce staff turnover, increase productivity, and increase profits.
Julian Treasure
Natural
Pay
Pay Attention
Increase
Our
Attention
Reduce
Staff
Turnover
Productivity
Businesses
Profits
Starting
My dream is to make the world sound better, but the only way to do that is to let businesses see that there is profit in it.
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World
Better
Profit
Way
Dream
See
Only
Make
Sound
Businesses
Unlike so many other sounds, there's no maximum exposure to birdsong.
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Other
Unlike
Sounds
Maximum
Many
Exposure
Sound changes moods, yet most of the sound around us is unplanned.
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Changes
Moods
Most
Around
Sound
Us
Noise is the number one problem in modern offices. A big part of addressing this issue is making sure unwanted sound from adjacent spaces doesn't intrude or interfere.
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Noise
Problem
Big
Unwanted
Addressing
Intrude
Part
Sure
Making
Sound
Issue
Big Part
Offices
Modern
Spaces
Interfere
Number
It's time architects start designing for our ears as well as our eyes.
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Time
Eyes
Our
Ears
Architects
Well
Start
Designing
When you hear a child's voice, it will have that immediate effect of putting you in mind of looking after children.
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You
Mind
Will
Looking
Immediate
Voice
Putting
Hear
Effect
Child
Children
After
I love reading other people's papers on the Tube.
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Love
People
Reading
Other
Papers
Tube
Someone else's paper is fascinating until you buy it yourself. Then it loses its appeal, and you have to pass it on to someone else to reinvigorate it.
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Buy
You
Yourself
Else
Paper
Someone
Until
Pass
Loses
Then
Appeal
Fascinating
This devaluing of listening is handed down from generation to generation. There are many children who don't have the experience of being listened to by their parents.
Julian Treasure
Generation
Experience
Listening
Parents
Down
Handed
Listened
Being
Children
Who
Many
If we're not listened to, then that doesn't create a desire inside us to listen to others. Societally, we don't value it.
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Value
Others
Inside
Listen
Listened
Then
Us
Create
Desire
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