week 8 

10/10/16-10/16/16

Julian Treasure - How to speak so that people will want to listen

Here's some Golden  life advice! 

7 Deadly Sins of Talking:

1. gossip
2. judging
3. negativity
4. complaining - viral misery
5. excuses
6. lying (embroidery - exaggerating - lies)
7. dogmatism - confusion between facts and opinions

4 Foundations to Powerful Speech

HAIL = "greet or claim enthusiastically"

1. Honesty
2. Authenticity - standing in your own truth
3. Integrity
4. Love

NOT JUST WHAT YOU SAY BUT HOW YOU SAY IT

Physiology of speaking: 

• REGISTER - speak from deeper parts of the chest - people associate depth with power
• TIMBER - the way your voice feels ;  we naturally  prefer smooth, rich, warm voices
• PROSIDY - metalanguage: monotone/repetitiveness/etc
• PACE - slow down, emphasize 
• PITCH  
• VOLUME

I really like how he ended the talk with a question about what would the world be like if we created and received sound consciously. it makes me wonder: what kinds of changes could we make as a society to reach this goal?