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Listening Was Defined by Julian Treasure A2

The document discusses listening and provides five tools for improving conscious listening presented by Julian Treasure. The tools are: 1) Taking three minutes of silence daily to reset the ears and mind; 2) Counting the number of voices being listened to in noisy situations; 3) Finding joy in even mundane sounds; 4) Being conscious of one's listening position and adjusting it based on what is being listened to; and 5) Using the RASA method of listening - Receive, Appreciate, Summarize, Ask. The overall message is that conscious listening is important but being lost due to various factors, and these five tools can help improve listening abilities.

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Listening Was Defined by Julian Treasure A2

The document discusses listening and provides five tools for improving conscious listening presented by Julian Treasure. The tools are: 1) Taking three minutes of silence daily to reset the ears and mind; 2) Counting the number of voices being listened to in noisy situations; 3) Finding joy in even mundane sounds; 4) Being conscious of one's listening position and adjusting it based on what is being listened to; and 5) Using the RASA method of listening - Receive, Appreciate, Summarize, Ask. The overall message is that conscious listening is important but being lost due to various factors, and these five tools can help improve listening abilities.

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Listening was defined by Julian Treasure as ‘‘making meaning from sound and a process of extraction.

’’ It
is extracted through the use of pattern recognition, discounting repeated sounds, and filtering what we
want to hear and where it should come from. We use it to understand and connect to the world and is
the main way that we are experiencing the flow of time. It truly takes a major part of our daily
communication however it is horrific how we neglected and overrated true and conscious listening.
‘‘The premium on accurate and careful listening has simply disappeared.’’- Julian Treasure. We are
indeed losing our appreciation to listen due to the invention of recordings. We are indeed losing our
listening due to our quietness, noisiness, and loss of intention. We are mostly impatient that we prefer
to listen to soundbites rather than oratory. We are truly losing our ability to create understanding, our
conscious listening ability. This sound so alarming that we need to immediately use the five exercise tool
on how to improve and retract our skill of listening consciously presented by Julian Treasure.

Hereunder are the five exercising tools presented by Julian Treasure.

To begin by taking three minutes of silence a day. It is designed to reset our ears and recalibrate our
minds to hear quietness again. Hearing some sort of quietness for a couple of minutes makes us more
prepared to listen It frees up our minds to take in and respond to messages; it is like emptying our cup
so it may be refilled.

Next is named by Julian Treasure as ‘‘The mixer’’, it is counting and differentiating how many channels of
individuals you’re listening to. Through this, we can be knowledgeable to know how are we capable of
listening in a noisy situation of communication. It is a good way to improve the quality of listening.

Moreover, to find joy in listening even to mundane sounds is what he calls ‘‘savoring’’. It is to practice
appreciating even uninteresting topics in communication. This helps us to more listen consciously
although we are talking to someone with no such interest in this we can say that we will see its
interesting side when we pay attention to it.

Furthermore, ‘‘adjusting’’, it is being conscious to change your listening position to what's appropriate to
what you're listening to. This help us to filter culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations
and intentions, through which you are listening and make adjustments.

1. Adjust. Change “your listening position to what's appropriate to what you're listening to.” Be
conscious of the filters (culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations and intentions)
through which you are listening and make adjustments.
2. RASA. “Receive, which means pay attention to the person; Appreciate, making little noises like
"hmm," "oh," "okay"; Summarize, the word "so" is very important in communication; and Ask,
ask questions afterward.”

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