2025-09-22
38 分钟You're listening to How to Be a Better Human.
I am your host, Chris Duffy,
and today's episode is a special one
because we recorded this live in person at the TED conference in Vancouver.
And this is with a person who, in many ways, embodies TED.
His TED talks are some of the most watched ever.
Julian Treasure is a musician.
He is someone who has worked as a publisher and a marketer.
He's a writer and a speaker and the through line through all of his many different various careers has been paying really close attention to the sounds that we make and to the things that we hear.
Julian describes his work as asking us to pay attention to how the sounds around us affect us and to become conscious in our speaking and especially our listening.
Julian's latest book is called Sound Effects.
How sound shapes our lives, our well-being and our planet.
And it is divided into four parts, exploring the sounds of the planet,
the sounds of nature, the sounds that humans make, and silence.
Let's start with the sounds that we make as humans.
So here is a clip from a TED talk that Julian gave back in 2013,
when he had already been thinking about this for years.
The human voice.
It's the instrument we all play.
It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably.