Treasure used to be a musician, first leading indie bands, then creating soundscapes for brands, which was only aided by his past as a “marketing entrepreneur” as well. He took that experience with sound and marketing and turned it into a practice that educates others on the importance of listening to each other, not just listening in general. He’s big on communication and believes that consciously receiving what someone is saying can aid when there is a breakdown in it.
And today’s quote is Treasure’s thoughts on what he means when he says “conscious listening” is so important, and why we should all work on, even if it’s not something we learned alongside our ABC’s.
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Quote of the Day by Julian Treasure
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Treasure said this quote in an interview with NPR in 2014 for an article titled, “Pythagoras’ iPhone: Is Listening A Lost Classroom Art?” It’s essentially about how teachers want students to really listen during lessons—whether to properly have Socratic-style dialogue or to just learn well; however, they really weren’t. And it wasn’t just in schools; listening as a whole had become a “lost art," per the article.
Treasure, after saying the above quote, goes on to say: “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."
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As he said in our quote of the day, this kind of observation is “something we have to work out” or on.
So with that extra knowledge, and the quote alone, it’s easy to understand what he’s saying. Listening to someone with intention—really being there in the moment and hearing what they’re saying to you, so you can respond to their words rather than to a planned-out sentiment that you created in your head at the start of your conversation—is vital to not only interpersonal communication but to interpersonal connection as well.
His overall ethos is that many world problems and humanity as we know it currently could be made better or fixed with conscious listening. And maybe that’s an oversimplification of the issues we face today. But it is true that better attentiveness to the core of what someone’s saying can help you understand them better, and it opens the door to creating a better bond with them.
More Quotes from Julian Treasure
“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.”“The human voice: It's the instrument we all play. It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It's the only one that can start a war or say 'I love you.' And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don't listen to them.”“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.”“Let's define listening as making meaning from sound. It's a mental process, and it's a process of extraction. We use some pretty cool techniques to do this. One of them is pattern recognition.”Up Next:
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