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Sound in a space affects us profoundly. It changes our heart rate, breathing, hormone secretion, brain waves. It affects our emotions and our cognition.

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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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People find birdsong relaxing and reassuring because over thousands of years, they have learnt when the birds sing, they are safe; it’s when birds stop singing that people need to worry.

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Music is designed to be listened to, so it’s calling for attention all the time, syphoning off our very limited auditory bandwidth and elbowing aside our ability to listen to the voice in our head we need when we’re doing mental work.

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In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound.

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Intention is very important in sound, in listening. When I married my wife, I promised her I would listen to her every day as if for the first time. Now that’s something I fall short of on a daily basis.

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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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People often mistake our mission at The Sound Agency for a crusade for silence, but actually, silence is in many ways just as bad as too much noise.

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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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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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Sound affects us physiologically, psychologically, cognitively, and behaviorally all the time. The sound around us is affecting us even though we’re not conscious of it.

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I think absolute honesty may not be what we want. I mean, ‘My goodness, you look ugly this morning.’ Perhaps that’s not necessary.

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It is a mistake to assume that everyone listens like you do: your listening is as unique as your fingerprints, and so is everyone else‘s.

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If you’re listening consciously, you can take control of the sound around you. It’s good for your health and for your productivity. If we all do that, we move to a state that I like to think will be sound living in the world.

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A sonic logo on its own isn’t going to do very much. We get frustrated with smaller brands who come to us and say, ‘We need a bing-bong’. You just can’t encapsulate a brand for £500 in a three-second sound. It doesn’t work.

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We all like to look good. However, this basic human desire can often get in the way of our listening and our speaking. This tendency often evinces itself in two simple words: ‘I know.’ But if I know everything, what can I learn? Absolutely nothing.

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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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The need to be right can arise from a fear of being disrespected. Or it may come out of the fear of being seen as we really are: as flawed human beings who are perfectly imperfect and full of contradictions and confusions.

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There’s a lot of research now showing that noise, and the lack of quiet working space, is one of the biggest issues for all office workers.

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Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement.

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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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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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Most of us walk around with our ears switched off because so much noise is unpleasant.

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Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don’t use them when they’re designing buildings.

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Music is the most powerful sound there is, often inappropriately deployed. It’s powerful for two reasons: you recognize it fast, and you associate it very powerfully.

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I love reading other people’s papers on the Tube.

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If you put music on top of noise, it’s like putting icing on top of mud; it might look like a cake, but it doesn’t taste like one.

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There are just huge benefits to come from designing for the ears in our health care.

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The Hindus say, ‘Nada brahma,’ one translation of which is, ‘The world is sound.’ And in a way, that’s true, because everything is vibrating.

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Men tend to listen in what I call a reductive way, which is to say for a point, for a solution. You know, we like to have a problem and solve it. Bang. Thank you very much. On to the next thing.

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Not even a woman cannot understand two people talking at the same time.

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Someone else’s paper is fascinating until you buy it yourself. Then it loses its appeal, and you have to pass it on to someone else to reinvigorate it.

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If you’re surrounded by noise all the time, it has a pretty bad effect on the spirit.

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You can detect a hostile listening or a bored listening or a tired listening or an excited and engaged listening.

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Conscious listening is very largely overlooked in the mainstream of education. It’s such an important skill in life. And yet we expect children to pick it up from home or from peers informally.

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If we teach our children how to listen properly to the world – and especially to each other – they will understand the consequences of their own sound and be far more responsible in making it.

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I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future.

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If you want to be listened to, the first step is to listen well yourself.

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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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I’m totally obsessed with sound. It’s my life.

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