Listen because you'll miss the point: Julian Treasure

Show Notes

Listening is a skill that can and must be learned to be more successful

Episode 219 (Julian is based in the Orkney, off the North Coast of Scotland)

In this conversation with Julian Treasure we explore:

• How listening helped our survival for thousands of years


• Why listening seems so difficult and is ignored


• The difference between hearing and listening


• Why we seem to focus more on speaking instead of listening


• Listening as a skill that needs to be learned and developed


• The inverse relationship between emotion and listening


• How to have respectful conversations with people who disagree with


• Why is listening more difficult the more senior you become in an organization


• Why diversity of perspective and opinion is valuable

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About our guest Julian Treasure:

Julian Treasure is an author and international speaker on sound and communication skills. His five TED talks have been viewed over 150 million times and his book “How To Be Heard” won both Audie and SOVAS awards for best business audiobook. His company The Sound Agency has been helping major global brands to improve their sound since 2003.

Learn more about Julian and his programs at 

https://www.juliantreasure.com/

Books by Julian Treasure

https://www.juliantreasure.com/books

https://www.juliantreasure.com/books

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Excerpts from this conversation with Julian Treasure:

Most people don't even understand that listening is different from hearing. Hearing is a capability. Listening is a skill. It's a skill you can practice and master, and if you do that, you can gain huge advantages in your life. Because the sad truth is, most people don't listen.

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To me, listening is the foundational skill of all of our communication. It's primal, it's critical, and yet we seem to have forgotten about it.

We don't teach it in school, which is mad when you think about it, because if you taught children first how to listen really well, how much more of their education would they absorb and retain than they do now.

Where they're struggling in classrooms built by architects who don't listen, the children can't hear very much a great deal of the time. And if they can hear it, are they actually listening? Not really, because they don't know how to do that.

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The foundation of my work really is that these skills, speaking and listening, have profound effects on three very important things, our happiness, our effectiveness and our well being.

So dear listener, if you don't care about any of those three things, don't bother.

But if those things are important to you, and I rather suspect they are, it really is worth opening these doors to whole new worlds of capability, skill, and, you know, transformed outcomes in those three domains, your happiness, your happiness, your effectiveness and your well, being powerfully affected by how will you speak and how will you listen?

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