DN118 with Julian Treasure- Learn the Skill Of Listening and Speaking

DreamNation’s guest for today is a a sound and communication expert. Ever dreamed of being a public speaker? Julian Treasure is the man to listen to! His business is all about advising businesses on how to use sound in their physical spaces and communication. As a man, he is more to that. His passion is for the world to sound better and for people to be inspired to listen consciously and to express themselves beautifully. This is exactly what we are learning in today’s episode!

As a young boy, Julian is a quite, academic, stubborn and results-oriented kid. He’s deep into reading and music. He is an over-all introverted person, which tells us that those great on stage and speaking do not necessarily mean they are extroverted. Like what Julian says, listening and speaking are skills, which, like all other skills, can be learned and practiced.

Julian grew into a powerful speaker, incrementally. Today, his vision is to help people how to listen consciously and speak powerfully. If you wanted to know how powerful Julian speaks, you can easily find his five-part TED Talks series which garnered more than 100 million views. Transform your communication skills today! Start by listening to this podcast in full!

Here’s What You Missed

• What is intentional communication?

Knowledge Nuggets

[5:21] Intentional communication. Thinking about what effect do I want to have? What's the result. What's my intention for this conversation. And then structuring communication one to many. Then listening. If you don't listen, how can you lead people?

[6:31] You start with small things and you work up by degrees unless you happen to be, you know, unbelievably, naturally talented, which is a rare thing.

[7:20] Life as a spiral staircase. If you go around the mound, it's similar, but every day is the same, we sleep and wake up. But ideally there's an elevation in each day. My biggest question to myself in any day is have I grown at all today?

[11:49] Stubborn is one of two great attributes of an entrepreneur. You have to be pigheaded stubborn, just stupid, stubborn. Because a lot of the time you're going through stuff which most people would say, that's it. I'm out of here. It's the inner flame, the conviction that you'll get there in the end. Second is the willingness to take the jump. so you have to be stubborn and you have to be a risk taker.

[16:26] Confusion of opinions with facts. They are two different things, but unfortunately in most of the world, they are very, very confused at the moment. they're conflated. Most people think they are they're, their opinions are indeed facts or many people do.

[19:07] I think creating team is absolutely critical if you're going to make something successful and that requires humility. It requires knowing what you're good at and then what you're not good at and surrounding yourself with the people who do this stuff. "Have fun, make money and work with people you like."               

[24:07] Listening is a skill. The interpretation of what you hear is listening, making meaning of a sound. You can practice it and you can get better at it. Consciousness about listening is critical.

4Cs of LISTENING: Consciousness, compassionate, Commitment, Curiosity

[27:40] The circle of communication. It's a circle because the way I speak affects the way you listen, the way you listen to affects the way I speak, the way I speak affects the way you speak and the way you listen affects the way I listen and so forth. There's all this interrelationship happening all the time.

[28:33] I think it's difficult to be continually powerful in speaking, if you don't listen to other people.

[31:01]  It's not about you. It's always about the gift you can give to the audience and it's about them and where you leave them at the end of your talk, which is a different place to where they were at the beginning.

[35:07] It's very important to be listening to opposing views. So, "looking good" and "being right"are things that we have to be very, very conscious of inside.

[38:11] R.A.S.A. Receive, appreciate, summarize, ask- the four pillars of really interesting conversation.

[41:47] Big change always starts with one person. Take the next step and see what turns up. Be true to your values.

Important Reads and Links

Julian Treasure books:

• Sound Business

Julian Treasure Website:                                          https://www.juliantreasure.com/

Julian Treasure Instagram:                        https://www.instagram.com/juliantreasure

Julian Treasure Facebook:                                        https://www.facebook.com/juliantreasure/

Julian Treasure LinkedIn:                                          https://uk.linkedin.com/in/juliantreasure

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