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Talk, it\u2019s only talk<\/span><\/h1>
The Retune Blog - 16th February 2024<\/span><\/h3><\/div><\/div>
<\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vce-text-block\"><div class=\"vce-text-block-wrapper vce\" id=\"el-bd6b3ffc\" data-vce-do-apply=\"all el-bd6b3ffc\"><p><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do words really matter? In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/49uRZKK\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King Crimson\u2019s Elephant Talk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we are confronted with reflection that sometimes people love to just talk and be heard even when they don\u2019t really have anything to say:<\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 16pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Babble, burble, banter, bicker ... brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo. It's only talk.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 16pt;\">Perhaps a neat commentary on a social media dominated world, especially for a song released in 1981 and pre-dating popular access to the internet, let alone social media. It shows that our obsession as humans with being heard absolutely pre-dates the amount of time people now spend on social media or trying to become \u2018influencers\u2019 and yet with little real value to contribute. It\u2019s clearly part of our human fabric. Yet the song also reflects the value of speech:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 16pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcements.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 16pt;\">It\u2019s only through talking that we can learn, be challenged, and grow. But perhaps the emphasis here is all in the wrong place. Talking is a given, but what about listening? The song concludes:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 16pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Too much talk<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 16pt;\">Perhaps this is right, but perhaps more accurately we need to think more about listening, as this is also something in our control. We can control what we say, but not what others say. However, we can always control what we listen to.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 16pt;\">It leads me to thinking about what I choose to listen to, and whether it helpfully pushes, challenges, comforts and moulds me, or whether it just prods me in a direction that I don\u2019t want to go or which might be unhealthy for me. Yet this leads me to a more profound question; what really is listening?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 16pt;\">Just hearing something isn\u2019t really listening. Listening only comes when I begin to engage with the sound; first through hearing, but then through processing and working it out in application. This is where listening becomes transformative. What we hear can change our lives if we personalise it and work with it. Depending on what we listen to, and then what we do with it, will depend on whether that change will be positive or negative.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, I think <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/49uRZKK\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King Crimson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has a really good point about being barraged with too much talk. 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