Celeste Headlee
16 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 5, 2019 by Celeste Headlee · across every show →
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Feb 5, 2019
Headlee outlines three modes of listening: evaluative, interpretive, and transformative
“There's the evaluative listening, where you're just deciding whether that person's right or wrong, what they're saying is true or false. And then there's interpretive, where you're trying to understand, and there's transformative, where you could be changed by…”
Feb 5, 2019 positive
Headlee: Vocal Cues Are Essential for Empathy and Human Recognition
“One of the best ways to create that understanding and that empathic bond is to hear someone's voice.
In other words, human beings are such sophisticated communicators.
There is so much information being transmitted just through the sound of somebody's voice.…”
Feb 5, 2019 positive
Headlee: Effective conversation requires an equal balance of talking and listening
“The best model for a good conversation is a friendly game of catch. And there's a number of reasons for that. The most obvious is that in a game of catch, you can't throw more than you catch. It's a perfectly even balance between throwing and catching, just as…”
Feb 5, 2019
Headlee: Interviewers must lead with core questions rather than conversational windups
“When you start that interview, that first question needs to be a good one. It needs to get to the meat of it. It can be a provocative question. It can be a question that, that reveals how well you know the material But for the most part, that needs to be getti…”
Feb 5, 2019 neutral
Headlee: Classical Music Radio Hosting Demands Rare Specialized Domain Knowledge
“Finding classical music hosts, as it turns out, is quite difficult because they have to have all the skills of any other radio host, but then they also have to have very specialized knowledge That allows them to pronounce all those names and works properly. Th…”
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Headlee: Radio mirrors poetry through strict artistic and time constraints
“I think that I think of radio I think of radio as poetry. Because those are two particular art forms that are quite limited. There's so many rules and so much going on that you, that in a way you're, it's quite limited in what you can and can't do. But if you …”
Feb 5, 2019
Headlee: Sustaining true conversation is difficult beyond four people
“When I'm talking about conversation, I'm almost always referring to one person talking to another, and the reason for that is it, it's really hard to sustain that level of attention and focus once you get more people involved. I think you could do it with thre…”
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Headlee: Specific color descriptions make audio storytelling more vivid
“Colors are really powerful to the ear. Don't tell us she was wearing a heavy jacket. Say she was wearing a heaven, a heavy fuchsia jackdown jacket, right, with green and purple and pink. Those are really loud when you hear them.”
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Headlee: Evolutionary biology makes humans naturally poor listeners
“Listening is really hard. I'm not saying that to make you feel better, although I hope it does make you feel better. It's not hard because of our smartphones. It's not hard because we're distracted. It's hard because human beings, the species homo sapien does …”
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Headlee: Interviews are one-sided spotlights, not mutual exchanges of information
“So it's not a mutual exchange of information in an interview. It's really way more one-sided than that because the interviewer, again, is supposed to shine the light on their guest and get the expertise from the guest.”