25. He starts off by saying how listening is an active skill and that how hearing is a passive skill. So basically, you hear all the time, even when you are sleeping, and you only listen when you actively want to e.g. When for instance when you are talking to someone and the news channel is on at the same time, you may be listening to the person you are talking to but hearing the news in the background. …show more content…
Reductive listening in basic terms is the most simple version of listening, only listening for the key information and then moving on. Men tend to use reductive listening whereas women tend to use expansive listening.
27. NIHD stands for Noise Induced Hearing Disorder, and 61% of college freshmen had damaged hearing as a result of headphone abuse.
28. He talks about sound compression and how it can damage our ears, he uses two music samples, one sample is uncompressed, and the other is compressed with 98% of the data in it removed. Although they sound very similar the compressed one can actually be quite damaging to your ears, because you need to imagine the data that is has been removed and that puts a lot more work on your brain and it can stress you out. I think it is an effective strategy to show you how similar the sounds may be but how different they really are.
Treasure shows us how nature sounds and multiple occurrences of nature e.g. birds, animals, wind, rain, and water all happening at once is healthy. Visually walking in nature and listening is very healthy for people.
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