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.

1. 5 Ways to Listen Better
Slides prepared by Oh Sher Li
Based on the talk by Julian Treasure
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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
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6. 1. silence
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7. • 3 minutes a day of silence.
• Resets our ears and re-calibrates
our listening.
• Lets us hear the silence again.
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8. 2. the mixer.
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9. • Listen to the individual channels of
sound.
• Improves the quality of our
listening.
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10. 3. savouring.
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11. • Enjoying mundane sounds in life.
• Teaches us to appreciate the little
sounds.
• Can be very interesting.
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12. 4. listening positions.
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13. • Move to a position that is
appropriate to what you’re listening
to.
• This is playing with the filters.
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14. 5. the acronym.
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15. • RASA
• R: Receive
• A: Appreciate
• S: Summarise
• A: Ask
• This is suitable for most roles in life.
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16. live to listen.
Listen consciously to live fully.
teach listening.
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17. Thank you
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