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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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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.
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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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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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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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If we teach our children how to listen properly to the world - and especially to each other - they will understand the consequences of their own sound and be far more responsible in making it.
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I have visited a number of boutique hotels where you feel there is a little bit of self-indulgence going on.
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Most of us walk around with our ears switched off because so much noise is unpleasant.
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By starting to pay attention to our natural soundscapes, businesses can reduce staff turnover, increase productivity, and increase profits.
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Without our natural soundscape, we are making ourselves tired, stressed, and frightened all at the same time.
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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.
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Music is made to be listened to, so you immediately have an issue where you're playing it in the background like wallpaper. Music doesn't want to behave like that.
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If you want to be listened to, the first step is to listen well yourself.
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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.
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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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Sound in a space affects us profoundly. It changes our heart rate, breathing, hormone secretion, brain waves. It affects our emotions and our cognition.
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We experience every space in five senses, so it's strange that architects design just for the eyes.
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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.
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You or I never buy an Intel product explicitly, and yet their sonic logo is far better known and more powerful than its visual equivalent. It's probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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The need to be right can arise from a fear of being disrespected. Or it may come out of the fear of being seen as we really are: as flawed human beings who are perfectly imperfect and full of contradictions and confusions.
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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.
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In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We have the capacity for about 1.6 human conversations, so if you're listening to one conversation particularly, you're only left with 0.6 for your inner voice that helps you write.
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We move through soundscapes all the time, and most of them are accidental - a by-product. Most retail soundscapes are accidental, incongruent with the brands, and mostly hostile.
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Men tend to listen in what I call a reductive way, which is to say for a point, for a solution. You know, we like to have a problem and solve it. Bang. Thank you very much. On to the next thing.
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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.
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The trouble with listening is that so much of what we hear is noise, surrounding us all the time.
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Your ears are always on - you have no ear lids. They work even when you sleep.
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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.
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We're designing environments that make us crazy. And it's not just our quality of life which suffers. It's our health, our social behavior, and our productivity as well.
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You can detect a hostile listening or a bored listening or a tired listening or an excited and engaged listening.
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If you put music on top of noise, it's like putting icing on top of mud; it might look like a cake, but it doesn't taste like one.
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Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when they're designing buildings.
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You are one-third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. I have a tip for you: if you work in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound like birdsong. Put them on, and your productivity goes back up to triple what it would be.
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If you're surrounded by noise all the time, it has a pretty bad effect on the spirit.
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It's an interesting door opening, this use of sonic signalling - using sound to alert us in a more subtle way than a beep.
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We spend all our time teaching reading and writing. We spend absolutely no time at all, in most schools, teaching either speaking or, more importantly still, listening.
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