TED演讲训练 声音训练师：聆听的5个技巧 5 ways to listen better.docxVIP

PAGE 231 Lesson23 声音训练师：聆听的5个技巧 5 ways to listen better Speaker: Julian Treasure 英文版 00:00 We are losing our listening. We spend roughly 60 percent of our communication time listening, but were not very good at it. We retain just 25 percent of what we hear. Now -- not you, not this talk, but that is generally true. 00:16 Lets define listening as making meaning from sound. Its a mental process, and its a process of extraction. 00:23 We use some pretty cool techniques to do this. One of them is pattern recognition. (Crowd noises) So in a cocktail party like this, if I say, David, Sara, pay attention -- some of you just sat up. We recognize patterns to distinguish noise from signal, and especially our name. Differencing is another technique we use. If I left this pink noise on for more than a couple of minutes, (Pink noise) you would literally cease to hear it. We listen to differences; we discount sounds that remain the same. 00:53 And then there is a whole range of filters. These filters take us from all sound down to what we pay attention to. Most people are entirely unconscious of these filters. But they actually create our reality in a way, because they tell us what were paying attention to right now. Ill give you one example of that. 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 thats something I fall short of on a daily basis. 01:26 But its a great intention to have in a relationship. 01:30 But thats not all. Sound places us in space and in time. If you close your eyes right now in this room, youre aware of the size of the room from the reverberation and the bouncing of the sound off the surfaces; youre aware of how many people are around you, because of the micro-noises youre receiving. And sound places us in time as well, because sound always has time embedded in it. In fact, I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience th