#6 How to speak so that people want to listen

Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen

Many people have the experience that when they speak, people don't listen to them. Why is that? How can we speak powerfully to make change in the world? 
Julian Treasure said that there are some habits we need to move away from our speaking, such as gossip, judging, negativity, complaining, excuses, embroidery, exaggeration and dogmatism. He suggest that there are four really powerful cornerstones, foundations, that we can stand on if we want our speech to be powerful and to make change in the world. The word is "hail," and it has a great definition as well. The H is honesty. The A is authenticity. The I is integrity. And the L is love.

I think this is a very powerful talk, I learned a lot from it. Julian Treasure give us a toolbox for effective communication, it's very useful. I want to be listened by people when speaking. However, it is not so easy to do it, but I believe practice makes one perfect.

#4 Steve Jobs' speech

• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
• You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. Because believing that dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart.
• Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
• Time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.
• Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition.
• If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.
• Stay hungry, stay foolish.