FAQ: Communication - why and how?

Why effective communication?

The success of a person depends upon his ability to communicate. An effective communicator emerges as a leader; a live instance is our Prime Minister Modi. Making ourselves an effective communicator is imperative for developing our soft skills and personalities. In this era, we tend to hear somebody not to understand but to give them a reply. We must know the proper meaning of hearing and listening. Hearing is totally a physical activity while listening is a mental activity. Research shows that about 60 per cent listening is involved in effective communication, and strange, but true, only 25 per cent of our listening capacity is used by us.

Robert Frost, a veteran American poet has said, 'half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.' It means, there are plenty of people who don't have context but keep generating content to mislead & misinform others. And in another way, some people acquire knowledge but don't know how to disseminate it. And it is from here that trouble arises. Much unhappiness has come to us because of things left unsaid.

How to develop it?

Some friends in college keep asking me why I have so formal personality over email. Why do I keep repeating the sentences and seek so much clarity in everything? I oft reply it's because I can't afford any mistake due to misinterpretation of a message either received or sent by me. A good communicator makes assure that the intended message should be perceived substantially.

'Woman without her man is nothing' - this statement is more than enough for creating public chaos and consequently, debates will follow on gender equality. But, is it possible too that you have not perceived what I actually wanted to mean? It is because of my ineffectiveness of conveying the message. I should've written, "Woman, without her, man is nothing" because this is what I actually wanted to say.

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