The Act Of Listening

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Listening — to loved ones, strangers, faraway places — is an act of generosity and a source of discovery. In this episode, TED speakers describe how we change when we listen deeply. In a special updated interview, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay reflects on how we can best listen to each other, especially within our current political climate. Other guests from the original 2015 broadcast include sound artist Honor Harger, percussionist Evelyn Glennie, and Baptist minister Jeffrey Brown.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Guy here.
0:01.0	And the episode you're about to hear originally aired in June of 2015, but wait, wait, we have
0:06.0	an update for you.
0:08.1	The episode is called the Active Listening, and it's about how listening to friends,
0:12.2	to strangers, to anyone can be transformative.
0:16.4	Now a lot has changed in the world since we first broadcast this episode three years ago.
0:21.4	And there are some really big questions about this sort of strange time we're living in.
0:26.6	And it's about whether we're listening to each other at all.
0:30.9	So to explore this idea, we brought Dave I say who's one of the Ted Speakers on this
0:35.3	episode back into the studio to talk about it.
0:40.7	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:46.7	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:48.7	Ted Talks.
0:49.7	Ted.
0:50.7	Ted, technology.
0:51.7	Entertainment, design.
0:52.7	Design.
0:53.7	Is that really what's 10 from?
0:54.7	Univurn-owned, delivered at Ted Conferences around the world.
0:57.8	It's the gift of the human imagination.
0:59.2	We've had to believe in impossible things.
1:01.7	This true nature of reality beckons from just beyond.
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