TEDTalk for Infographic

TEDTalk: Julian Treasure: "5 Ways to Listen Better"

Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_5_ways_to_listen_better/transcript#t-343000

Outline:

1.      Generally talks about the phenomenon that people are losing their listening.

2.      Listening is a mental process of extraction.

Listening techniques: pattern recognition and differencing.

Intention is important in listening.

3.      Sound places us in space and in time.

4.      The reasons we are losing our listening:

a)        We invented ways of recording

b)        The world is now so noisy:

c)        We are becoming impatient and desensitized

5.      Five exercises to improve our conscious listening:

a)        Silence: to hear the quiet

b)        Mixer: listen in a noisy environment

c)        Savoring: enjoying mundane sounds

d)       Listening positions: move listening position to what's appropriate to what you're listening to

e)        An acronym—RASA: receive; appreciate; summarize; ask

6.      The importance for human being to listen consciously.

Evaluate:

1). It is a good TEDTalk because the speaker clearly clarifies the importance of conscious listening and the serious problem that we are losing our listening. He then provides five relatively easy exercises to help improve our conscious listening. The whole speech is very logical and persuasive with clear interpretation about current situation why we are losing our listening and the importance of listening. Also, the speaker provides a lot of specific examples to help audience understand the content better, and makes the speech more attractive.

2). I think this TEDTalk is also a good subject to turn into an infographic. Firstly this TEDTalk has a very clear theme and organization, so it is easy to find out the main points of the content and divide them into different part clearly to make an infographic. The information can be visualized. And the speaker also provides many vivid examples that can be transformed into images for the infographic.