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" When you hear a child's voice, it will have that immediate effect of putting you in mind of looking after children. "

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" Let's define listening as making meaning from sound. It's a mental process, and it's a process of extraction. We use some pretty cool techniques to do this. One of them is pattern recognition. "

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" You are one-third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. I have a tip for you: if you work in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound like birdsong. Put them on, and your productivity goes back up to triple what it would be. "

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" Retailers don't think about why they have music. There are a number of issues. It can be very powerful in the right place, where it is played appropriately. "

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" My dream is to make the world sound better, but the only way to do that is to let businesses see that there is profit in it. "

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" It would be some sort of shock horror story if a child left school unable to read or write. But we do not teach explicitly, or test in the main, either speaking or - much more importantly - listening. "

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" We have the capacity for about 1.6 human conversations, so if you're listening to one conversation particularly, you're only left with 0.6 for your inner voice that helps you write. "

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" By starting to pay attention to our natural soundscapes, businesses can reduce staff turnover, increase productivity, and increase profits. "

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" It's an interesting door opening, this use of sonic signalling - using sound to alert us in a more subtle way than a beep. "

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" Sound is complex; there are many countervailing influences. It can be a bit like a bowl of spaghetti: sometimes you just have to eat it and see what happens. "

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" It's a common mistake to speak the same to everybody. We all have different filters. "

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" I think it's pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard - we will just talk to our computers. Why would we not? "

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" Your ears are always on - you have no ear lids. They work even when you sleep. "

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" My mother, in the last years of her life, became very negative, and it's hard to listen. I remember one day, I said to her, 'It's October 1 today,' and she said, 'I know, isn't it dreadful?' It's hard to listen when somebody's that negative. "

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" This devaluing of listening is handed down from generation to generation. There are many children who don't have the experience of being listened to by their parents. "

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" There's a little bit of protocol in the real world which is quite important. If you speak to me, we understand that we've entered into a social contract. But sound that you haven't given permission to receive is noise, and generally unwelcome. "

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" We vote for politicians with lower voices, it's true, because we associate depth with power and with authority. "

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" Noise is the number one problem in modern offices. A big part of addressing this issue is making sure unwanted sound from adjacent spaces doesn't intrude or interfere. "

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" The desire to be right can be very destructive in relationships. "

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