{"id":4848,"date":"2012-11-17T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T16:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2012-11-17T12:50:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T16:50:53","slug":"perhaps-listening-is-undervalued-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/perhaps-listening-is-undervalued-skill\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps listening is good for us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4356\" title=\"1-RadioListening2\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2-74x100.jpg 74w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>I&#8217;ve always believed that, over time, the process of listening through static to hear a distant shortwave broadcast, has been good for not only increasing my listening skills in general, but has been healthy for the grey matter.\u00a0Seth S. Horowitz, auditory neuroscientist\u00a0at Brown University, has just\u00a0substantiated\u00a0this belief in his NY Times piece, <a title=\"The NY  Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/11\/opinion\/sunday\/why-listening-is-so-much-more-than-hearing.html?_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">The Science and Art of Listening<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;]Hearing, in short, is easy. You and every other vertebrate that hasn\u2019t suffered some genetic, developmental or environmental accident have been doing it for hundreds of millions of years. It\u2019s your life line, your alarm system, your way to escape danger and pass on your genes. But listening, really listening, is hard when potential distractions are leaping into your ears every fifty-thousandth of a second \u2014 and pathways in your brain are just waiting to interrupt your focus to warn you of any potential dangers.<\/p>\n<p>Listening is a skill that we\u2019re in danger of losing in a world of digital distraction and information overload.<\/p>\n<p>And yet we dare not lose it. Because listening tunes our brain to the patterns of our environment faster than any other sense, and paying attention to the nonvisual parts of our world feeds into everything from our intellectual sharpness to our dance skills.[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a title=\"NY Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/11\/opinion\/sunday\/why-listening-is-so-much-more-than-hearing.html?_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">in the NY Times<\/a>. Thanks, David, for passing this along!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always believed that, over time, the process of listening through static to hear a distant shortwave broadcast, has been good for not only increasing my listening skills in general, but has been healthy for the grey matter.\u00a0Seth S. Horowitz, auditory neuroscientist\u00a0at Brown University, has just\u00a0substantiated\u00a0this belief in his NY Times piece, The Science and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,8],"tags":[1481,1479,1480,1478],"class_list":["post-4848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-articles","tag-art-of-listening","tag-listening-vs-hearing","tag-radio-listening","tag-shortwave-listening"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1gc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63746,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-un-radio-and-listening-to-the-world-radio-network\/","url_meta":{"origin":4848,"position":0},"title":"Carlos\u2019 Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of UN Radio and Listening to the World Radio Network","author":"Thomas","date":"August 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff, who shares the following\u00a0illustrated radio listening report of a recent UN Radio broadcast via WRN. 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