Microphone Sensitivity
How much you hear. Controls whether you pick up on the quiet signals — tone shifts, what someone didn't say, the things most people miss.
Courtney and the Wedding Speech She Never Understood
Microphone Sensitivity is about picking up on quiet signals — what someone didn't say, or the thing underneath what they said. Linda had her microphone turned very low at the wedding. She stopped listening partway through the poem and never heard the compassionate ending. Courtney's anger, meanwhile, was the surface signal — but the quiet thing underneath it was worry and love. Neither of them was picking up on what the other was actually transmitting. The conversation thirty years later was the first time both women turned up their sensitivity.