Практика английского по видео: How to Speak So That People Want to Listen - Julian Treasure
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- The Human Voice The human voice.0:11
- It's the instrument we all play.0:15
- It's the most powerful sound in the world.0:18
- Probably it's the only one that can start a war or say, I love you.0:20
- And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don't listen to them.0:24
- Why is that?0:28
- How can we speak powerfully to make change in the world?0:29
- What I'd like to suggest there are a number of habits that we need to move away from.0:33
- I've assembled for your pleasure here seven deadly sins of speaking.0:37
- I'm not pretending this is an exhaustive list, but these seven I think are pretty large.0:41
- The habits that we can all fall into.0:46
- First, gossip.0:49
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- Speaking ill of somebody who's not present.0:51
- Not a nice habit and we know perfectly well the person gossiping five minutes later will be gossiping about us.0:54
- Second, judging.1:01
- We know people who are like this in conversation and it's very hard to listen to somebody if you know that you're being judged and found wanting at the same1:03
- time.1:11
- Third, negativity.1:12
- You can fall into this.1:14
- My mother in the last years of her life became very, very negative and it's hard to listen.1:15
- I remember one day I said to her, it's October the first today and she said, I know, isn't it dreadful?1:19
- It's hard to listen when somebody's that negative.1:26
- And another form of negativity, complaining.1:30
- Well, this is the national art of the UK.1:33
- It's our national sport.1:37
- We complain about the weather, about sport, about politics, about everything.1:38
- But actually complaining is viral misery.1:42
- It's not spreading sunshine and lightness in the world.1:44
- Excuses.1:48
- We've all met this guy.1:50
- Maybe we've all been this guy.1:51
- Some people have a blame -thrower.1:52
- They just pass it on to everybody else and don't take responsibility for their actions.1:55
- And again, hard to listen to somebody who's being like that.1:59
- Penultimate, the sixth of the seven.2:02
- Embroidery.2:04
- Exaggeration.2:06
- It demeans our language actually sometimes.2:08
- For example, if I see something that really is awesome, what do I call it?2:10
- And then of course this exaggeration becomes lying, out and out lying.2:17
- And we don't want to listen to people we know are lying to us.2:21
- And finally, dogmatism.2:24
- The confusion of facts with opinions.2:27
- When those two things get conflated, you're listening into the wind.2:31
- You know, somebody is bombarding you with their opinions.2:34
- As if they were true, it's difficult to listen to that.2:36
- So here they are, seven deadly sins of speaking.2:40
- These are things I think we need to avoid.2:43
- But is there a positive way to think about this?2:46
- Yes, there is.2:49
- I'd like to suggest that there are four really powerful cornerstones, foundations that we can stand on if we want our speech to be powerful and to make change in2:50
- the world.3:00
- Fortunately, these things spell a word.3:02
- The word is hail, and it has a great definition as well.3:04
- I'm not talking about the stuff that falls from the sky and hits you on the head.3:07
- I'm talking about this definition, to greet or acclaim enthusiastically, which is I think how our words will be received if we stand on these four things.3:10
- So what do they stand for?3:18
- See if you can guess.3:20
- The H, honesty, of course.3:22
- Being true in what you say, being straight and clear.3:25
- The A is authenticity, just being yourself.3:28
- A friend of mine described it as standing in your own truth, which I think is a lovely way to put it.3:32
- The I is integrity, being your word, actually doing what you say and being somebody people can trust.3:37
- And the L is love.3:44
- I don't mean romantic love, but I do mean wishing people well.3:47
- For two reasons.3:51
- First of all, I think absolute honesty may not be what we want.3:52
- I mean, my goodness, you look ugly this morning.3:56
- Perhaps that's not necessary.3:59
- Tempered with love, of course, honesty is a great thing.4:02
- But also, if you're really wishing somebody well, it's very hard to judge them at the same time.4:05
- I'm not even sure you can do those two things simultaneously.4:11
- So, Hale.4:15
- Also, now that's what you say, and it's like the old song, it is what you say, it's also the way that you say it.4:17
- You have an amazing toolbox, this instrument is incredible.4:22
- And yet this is a toolbox that very few people have ever opened.4:26
- I'd like to have a little rummage in there with you now.4:29
- And just pull a few tools out that you might like to take away and play with, which will increase the power of your speaking.4:31
- Register, for example.4:38
- Now, falsetto register may not be very useful most of the time.4:40
- But there's a register in between.4:43
- I'm not going to get very technical about this for any of you who are voice coaches.4:46
- You can locate your voice, however.4:49
- So if I talk up here in my nose, you can hear the difference if I go down here in my throat, which is where most of us speak from4:51
- most of the time.4:57
- But if you want weight, you need to go down here to the chest.4:58
- You hear the difference?5:03
- We vote for politicians with lower voices.5:04
- It's true.5:07
- Because we associate depth with power and with authority.5:08
- That's register.5:14
- And we have timbre.5:15
- It's the way your voice feels.5:17
- Again, the research shows that we prefer voices which are rich, smooth, warm, like hot chocolate.5:19
- Well, if that's not you, that's not the end of the world.5:26
- Because you can train.5:29
- Go get a voice coach.5:31
- And there are amazing things you can do with breathing, with posture, with exercises to improve the timbre of your voice.5:32
- Then prosody.5:39
- I love prosody.5:40
- This is the sing song, the meta language that we use in order to impart meaning.5:41
- It's Route 1 for meaning in conversation.5:45
- People who speak all on one note are really quite hard to listen to if they don't have any prosody at all.5:48
- That's where the word monotonic comes from, monotonous, monotone.5:54
- Also, we have repetitive prosody now coming in, where every sentence ends as if it were a question.6:00
- When it's actually not a question, it's a statement.6:06
- And if you repeat that one over and over, it's actually restricting your ability to communicate through prosody, which I think is a shame.6:10
- So let's try and break that habit.6:18
- Pace.6:21
- I can get very, very excited by saying something really, really quickly, or I can slow right down to emphasize.6:22
- And at the end of that, of course, is our old friend silence.6:28
- There's nothing wrong with a bit of silence in a talk, is there?6:34
- We don't have to fill it with ums and rs.6:38
- It can be very powerful.6:41
- Of course, pitch often goes along with pace to indicate a rousal, but you can do it just with pitch.6:43
- Where did you leave my keys?6:48
- Where did you leave my keys?6:50
- It's a slightly different meaning in those two deliveries.6:52
- And finally, volume.6:56
- I can get really excited by using volume.6:58
- Sorry about that, if I startled anybody.7:01
- Or I can have you really pay attention by getting very quiet.7:03
- Some people broadcast the whole time, try not to do that.7:08
- That's called sodcasting.7:12
- Imposing your sound on people around you carelessly and inconsiderately.7:15
- Not nice.7:19
- Of course, where this all comes into play, most of all, is when you've got something really important to do.7:21
- It might be standing on a stage like this and giving a talk to people.7:26
- It might be proposing marriage, asking for a raise, a wedding speech, whatever it is.7:29
- If it's really important, you owe it to yourself to look at this toolbox and the engine that it's going to work on, and no engine works well without being7:35
- warmed up.7:44
- Warm up your voice.7:45
- Actually, let me show you how to do that.7:47
- Would you all like to stand up for a moment?7:49
- I'm going to show you the six vocal warm -up exercises that I do before every talk I ever do.7:52
- Any time you're going to talk to anybody important, do these.7:58
- First, arms up.8:01
- Deep breath in and sigh out.8:03
- Like that.8:06
- One more time.8:07
- Very good.8:11
- Now we're going to warm up our lips and we're going to go...8:12
- Very good.8:18
- And now...8:18
- Just like when you were a kid.8:22
- Now your lips should be coming alive.8:24
- We're going to do the tongue next with exaggerated...8:26
- Beautiful.8:33
- You're getting really good at this and then roll an R.8:33
- That's like champagne for the tongue.8:38
- Finally, and if I can only do one, the pros call this the siren.8:40
- It's really good.8:44
- It starts with we and goes to all.8:45
- The we is high, the all is low.8:46
- So you go...8:48
- Wee!8:49
- Oh!8:51
- Wee!8:53
- Fantastic.8:54
- Give yourselves a round of applause.8:55
- Thank you.8:56
- Next time you speak, do those in advance.8:59
- Now let me just put this in context to close.9:02
- This is a serious point here.9:05
- This is where we are now, right?9:07
- We speak not very well into people who simply aren't listening in an environment that's all about noise and bad acoustics.9:09
- I have talked about that on this stage in different phases.9:15
- What would the world be like if we were speaking powerfully to people who were listening consciously in environments which were actually fit for purpose?9:18
- Or to make that a bit larger, what would the world be like if we were creating sound consciously and consuming sound consciously and designing all our environments consciously for9:27
- sound?9:38
- That would be a world that does sound beautiful and one where understanding would be the norm.9:39
- And that is an idea worth spreading.9:46
- Thank you.9:49
- Thank you.9:50
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- monotone, bombarding, restricting, acclaim, enthusiastically, exhaustive
