TED - Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better

By Khmer Democrat, Phnom Penh

Listening to Understand Series

WOW! WOW!! WOW!!! A message specifically for us Cambodians, who have lost our listening faculty to the cacophony of deafening, constant, shrill NOISE POLLUTION from loudspeakers, karaoke bars blaring nonsensical violent, sexual offense, and of the physical and emotional VIOLENCE... Learning How to Listening course should be first taught to the politicians, then in all the schools and pagodas and marketplace, etc.

In our louder and louder world, says sound expert Julian Treasure, "We are losing our listening." In this short, fascinating talk, Treasure shares five ways to re-tune your ears for conscious listening -- to other people and the world around you.

Why you should listen to him:

Julian Treasure is the chair of the Sound Agency, a firm that advises worldwide businesses -- offices, retailers, hotels -- on how to use sound. He asks us to pay attention to the sounds that surround us. How do they make us feel: productive, stressed, energized, acquisitive?

Treasure is the author of the book Sound Business and keeps a blog by the same name that ruminates on aural matters (and offers a nice day-by-day writeup of TEDGlobal 2009). In the early 1980s, Treasure was the drummer for the Fall-influenced band Transmitters.