# Julian Treasure: Shh! Sound health in 8 steps

Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health -- even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2010
- Runtime: 7 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science, Nature, Music
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/JulianTreasure_2010G)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/JulianTreasure_2010G?play=1)