Journaling listening sessions reveals otherwise invisible patterns of progress

Evidence

It is important to review your listening experience and to compare your prior and after feelings, sensations, intuitions and thoughts and write them in your journal. As experiences accumulate in your journal, patterns of listening may become discernable and progress will become apparent. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 190

Categorization

  • SEED: Angle: how longitudinal self-tracking of attention practice makes subjective progress visible — relevant for teachers and mediated-listening projects.
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 190
  • XREF: connects to: Journaling builds cumulative meaning across accumulated listening experiences — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 216; Daily private journaling tracks individual listening progress over time. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 109; Diaries can expose the complexities of a writer’s creative process. — Thomas Mallon, A Book of Ones Own People and Their…, 435 (+1 more)

Broader Connections