5 ways to listen better

5 ways to listen better

1. What is listening?

   • making meaning from sound
   • It's a mental process
   • It's a process of extraction

2. Listening technique

   • Pattern recognition
     • We recognize patterns to distinguish noise signal
   • Differencing
     • We discount sounds that remains the same
   • Range of fillters
     • culture
     • language
     • values
     • beliefs
     • attitudes
     • expectations
     • intentions

3. Reasons we're loosing our listening

   • We invented ways of recording
     • writing
     • audio recording
     • video recording
   • The world is now so noisy
     • Its's hard to listen
     • It's tiring to listen

4. 5 simple exercises to improve our concious listening

   • Silence
     • Only 3 minute of silence needed a day
     • To reset your ears and to recalibrate
   • "The Mixer"
     • Be in noisy enviroment
       • The lake
       • The coffee bar
     • To improve the quality of your listening
   • Savoring
     • Enjoying mundane sounds
       • Tumble dryer
         • It's a waltz
     • Mundane sounds can be really interesting
   • "The hidden choir"
     • The most important of all of these
     • You can move your listening position to what's appropriate to what you're listening to
     • Listening postion
       • active|passive
       • reductive|expansive
       • critical|empathetic
   • An acronym
     • You can use this in listening in communication
     • RASA
       • R-Receive
         • pay attention to the person
       • A-Appreciate
         • making little noises like "hmm","oh","OK"
       • S-Summarise
         • the word "so" is very important in communication
       • A-Ask
         • ask questions afterwards

5. The importance of listening

   • consious listening creates understanding
   • access to understanding