It turns out that around 1 in 20 people truly have amusia, which is the technical term for “tone deafness.”
While many people are terrible singers, it’s usually just a case of having a bad singing voice, or of course, a lack of practice.
With those 1 in 20, there’s an inability to follow simple tunes or pick out tone differences, but for the rest of us, we can notice differences, yet simply can’t sing well.
If we can notice the differences in the culture – if we can see each other, we can practice and develop empathy.
In times of change, we often wonder how to act, or what to do.
For most people, the difficulty isn’t seeing the different landscape or realising that something needs to be adjusted, it’s that we don’t practice singing in a range of different tones very often.
This lack of practice creates friction and hesitation.
While we can expect things to be clunky, if we can see each other, we can be empathetic.
If we can see, feel and perceive a change, we can (if we want), still create, still connect and still share.
