The document discusses 5 ways to listen better based on a talk by Julian Treasure. It recommends taking 3 minutes of silence daily to reset listening abilities, listening to individual sound channels to improve quality, savoring mundane sounds to appreciate the little noises, moving to different listening positions to play with personal filters, and using the RASA method of receive, appreciate, summarize, and ask to enhance most roles in life. The overall message is that conscious listening allows people to live fully and listening should be taught.
Q-Factor HISPOL Quiz-6th April 2024, Quiz Club NITW
5 Ways Improve Listening
1. 5 Ways to Listen Better
Slides prepared by Oh Sher Li
Based on the talk by Julian Treasure
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
2. The Problem Where has our listening
gone?
• With many methods of
communication, we are forgetting
how to listen.
• We don’t appreciate the little
sounds around us.
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3. what is it really?
what is listening?
• Listening is basically making
meaning from sound.
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4. The filters what defines what we hear?
What do we listen to?
• Culture • Expectations
• Language • Intentions
• Beliefs
• Attitudes
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5. what does sound do? why is it
important?
• Places us in space and time.
• All sound has time embedded in it.
• Helps us determine the size of a
room, the number of people, etc.
• Sonority is time and meaning.
- Jean-Luc Nancy
Wednesday, June 27, 2012