Are You Listening?

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🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Have you ever sat across from your spouse, colleague or friend and realized that while they may be hearing what you're saying, they aren't actually listening? Poor listening can lead to arguments, hurt feelings, and fractured relationships. But the good news is that active, thoughtful listening can profoundly benefit both people in the conversation. This week on the show, psychologist Guy Itzchakov helps us understand where interactions go awry, and how to become a more attentive listener.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:03.6	As the sun set that April evening, the wireless radio began to crackle.
0:09.1	It was a cold night in the North Atlantic
0:11.5	and ships were sending messages to their sisters.
0:14.0	Watch out, they said. Iceberg's ahead.
0:20.0	On board the RMS Titanic, a man named Jack Phillips was working at the wireless radio.
0:27.0	He received word from another ship that pinpointed the location of heavy ice pack and a great number of bergs.
0:35.0	Close to 11 p.m. another ship, the Californian,
0:38.0	said it had come to a standstill in a dense field of ice.
0:42.0	Shut up, the wireless operator still in a dense field of ice.
0:46.0	Shut up, the wireless operator is supposed to have responded.
0:48.0	I'm busy.
0:52.0	Busy, with what? Jack Phillips was sending and receiving personal messages over the wireless radio
0:57.0	for the ship's many wealthy and important passengers.
1:02.0	You know what happened next. The Titanic's truck an iceberg shortly afterwards.
1:07.0	It sank and killed more than 1500 people on board.
1:11.0	Today we know there were many things on board.
1:17.0	Today we know there were many things that went wrong that night in 1912.
1:21.0	People mistakenly believed that Titanic was un-sinkable.
1:26.2	There were not enough lifeboats to go around. The lifeboats that did manage to get into the water eventually floated away with more than 400 empty seats. But the story of what happened in the wireless room
1:35.1	that night is less well known. What might have happened if the wireless operator,
1:40.5	the captain and crew, had actually listened to the warnings that were coming in loud and clear.
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