This week, millions of people made their voices heard, and a country changed with them. Change rarely arrives as a grand plan. It starts with a promise that doesn’t add up, a song heard differently, a question we can’t quite answer. This week is about the moments that change our tune, and who we become after them.

• The brain injury that made Edward Freytag a musical genius. A brain injury, and a new way of hearing meant his relationship with music changed in ways nobody expected – The New York Times
• The backlash to corruption is going global. One Pennsylvania voter, living paycheque to paycheque, explains why she’s stopped listening to the people she used to back. In the week of America’s historic midterms, a look at why voters around the world are turning on leaders they see as serving themselves – The Atlantic
• Want to enjoy music more? Go for a run. Music critic Ben Ratliff always ran in silence. Then he started “running the song”, and found his whole way of listening changed – The Daily Podcast
• The person you become. Philosopher L.A. Paul tells Scott Barry Kaufman why some of life’s biggest decisions can’t be understood until we’ve lived through them, and how our values shift along the way – Human Potential Lab
• Dream of birds: the lost songs of Argentina. What happens when a forest forgets its songs? A physicist discovered that some Argentinian birds have lost melodies their species once sang, and is using robot tutors to teach them back – The Guardian  
• The NYC Marathon inspired me to escape Afghanistan. Now I’m running the race. At 17, confined to her home after the Taliban took over, Danish Hussain Yar watched a video of runners crossing the finish line and made a promise in her journal. This Sunday, she ran it herself – Teen Vogue
• Inside Job: The senior leaders speaking up from within. When the values your company called non-negotiable start to bend, what do you do? Gib Bulloch on the senior leaders speaking up from within – The Beautiful Truth