Training your listening skills

When I was working on the seminar I gave last Friday in Santander, I came across a great recording on ted.com of Julian Treasure:  5 ways to listen better.

He makes some very valid points (you can hear him make them in the talk, and also/or read them in the transcript):

We spend roughly 60 percent of our communication time listening, but we're not very good at it. 

 we're losing our listening. Why did I say that? Well there are a lot of reasons for this. First of all, we invented ways of recording -- first writing, then audio recording and now video recording as well. The premium on accurate and careful listening has simply disappeared. 

Julian Treasure suggests 5 steps to improve our listening:

The first is to include 3 minutes of silence in our lives per day.

And I'll leave you to watch the video to find out the other four.....

Here's a wordcloud with the words Julian Treasure used in the talk.

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