​Chihiro ONO

 Power of Deep Listening 

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For majority of us, a fact appears only there when you see it, and every results has to appear visually at a front of your eyes as quickly as possible. Yes, the visual information is very crucial. But how about the informations you get from ears? 

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Listening is an essential ability for animals. We use it actively from the very beginning and till the very end of our lives. We cannot "switch off" it by oneself. In addition, animals even have the ability to heal themselves if their hearing system is damaged (unfortunately humans do not).

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It is also a very essential tool for surviving ones life. Animals stop their another activities when it needs, to focus on Listening to get the best result for next move in everyday life. The (active) Deep Listening emphasises things that need to be recognised, to get the better results in action.

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Nowadays it looks like human has lost these sensitive side of Listening. It became just “Hearing” - a passive action, which never produce any outcomes by itself. In this sense, Plato’s comment “music is luxury" became a truth. Also this is a starting point of creating many careless actions to the others, and yourself. In the result, majority of us lost our sensibility towards to each other, our lives and our planet.

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I think if we use our abilities maximum sensitively and modestly, like the rest of animals, this planet did not get the state we are on now.

 

Since 80s, tech is working hard on “Deep Learning” on AI to speed up the actions focusing on Whats and Hows. The result (or the process) we see now is incredible. Why not making us/human do "Deep Learning" on Deep Listening? I think Deep Listening will lead us to think Whys, and I think "thinking Whys" makes human more human.

 

Lastly, this “Deep Listening” helps our inner life be richer as a human, which makes our lives easier in many ways on this planet.     ...I think.

@ 2020