If you take a long-hard look around you the sounds you hear are different now [see photo]. Yeah, I know, it is strange to listen with your eyes; and yet, most people do just that these days. For example, they stare at an iPhone to hear a voice read an audible book, to hear the other half of their wireless conversation, or to hear their "confirmation bias" being stroked by commentary which inculcated into their inner voice as ideological, theological, or Clique-based slang.
I was riding on a Prague tram just twenty minutes ago; and while there I listened with my eyes. I heard people having a gentle face-to-face conversation while others were head-down shouting into their iPhones. I noted that decisions made face-to-face are much more likely to be based on trust than those made over the an opaque iPhone connection. So if you are back at work this week [after an absence due to lockdowns] listen with your eyes to the new discourse either on the opaque media [mobile phones, computers, etc] or the transparent medium [in-person communication]. Your job has changed. Your work has been redesigned. Your whole life has been turned inside out, and, upside down. But you can not, and will not, grasp any of those changes unless, and until, you learn to listen with your eyes.
So set aside a few days, weeks, or even months to "take a long-hard look around you"... what you hear might just change you forever and ever.
Richard.
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