Name: 【TED】Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps (Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps)
Uploaded: 2017-11-03T22:50:17.000Z
Duration: 7 min 15 s
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one translation of which is, "The world is sound."

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And in a way, that's true, because everything is vibrating.

In fact, all of you as you sit here right now are vibrating.

Every part of your body is vibrating at different frequencies.

they can actually hear amazing things. Your ears can hear 10 octaves.

Your ears are always on -- you have no ear lids.

moves your eardrum just four atomic diameters.

is a trillion times more powerful than that.

whereas hearing is passive, listening is something that we have to work at --

And yet it's a skill that none of us are taught.

For example, have you ever considered that there are listening positions,

It reduces everything down to what's relevant

and it discards everything that's not relevant.

He's saying, "Here's your solution. Thanks very much. Next."

is listening "with," not listening "for."

If you look at these two, eye contact, facing each other,

Men, if you get nothing else out of this talk,

and you can transform your relationships.

The trouble with listening is that so much of what we hear

Noise like this, according to the European Union,

is reducing the health and the quality of life

Two percent of the population of Europe --

Now, when you were little, if you had noise and you didn't want to hear it,

you'd stick your fingers in your ears and hum.

These days, you can do a similar thing, it just looks a bit cooler.

The trouble with widespread headphone use

is it brings three really big health issues.

The first really big health issue is a word that Murray Schafer coined:

the voices of people who are not present with us.

I think there's something deeply unhealthy

about living all the time in schizophonia.

The second problem that comes with headphone abuse

We squash music to fit it into our pocket

Listen to this -- this is an uncompressed piece of music.

And now the same piece of music with 98 percent of the data removed.

can hear the difference between those two.

It makes you tired and irritable to have to make up all of that data.

The third problem with headphones is this: deafness --

Ten million Americans already have this for one reason or another,

roughly one in six -- of American teenagers

suffer from noise-induced hearing disorder

found that 61 percent of college freshmen

We may be raising an entire generation of deaf people.

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【TED】Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps (Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps)

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