I am seriously questioning the definition of good communication skills!!!
I am pretty sure Aabbbabbaaa is my toddler Nephew's favorite word. And I have never understood, loved, effectively entertained, got entertained and connected with someone like I do with him. Just a few mins with him washes away my stress like some good iced tea can wash down bad, greasy fast food.
Despite his limited vocabulary he is fed, cleaned, entertained as per his will and specifications. He melts our hearts, makes us smile, tell us when he needs attention, approve and rejects our desperate attempts for his giggles, choose his nursery rhymes and effectually guides us to serve him better.
He makes me wonder if there is anything like an effective communicator.
We speak incessantly. We learn multiple languages and accents. We ruminate over completed and upcoming conversations. We pre plan responses to a phantom conversation or arguments. We try to access people and situations based on the words and their tone. Even with a plethora of words, most relationships, personal and professional, suffer with miscommunication and misrepresentation of our true expression.
May be speaking, with intent, finesse, consideration is over emphasized.
May be like in my nephew's case, the key of good communication is to communicate with the people who are willing, receptive and excited about what you want to express. May be while we over stress on what and how we communicate, we miss finding an audience who is compassionately wanting to hear us. May be this is why romantic relationships, managerial initiatives and political arguments fail.
Though we cannot have completely receptive audience with predictable reaction till we become successful dictators with very creative ways to vanish unfavorite people , we still owe it to ourselves to hang out with some kind-hearted and open-minded audience. Or we can be mindblowingly adorable like little Aaron.
I am pretty sure Aabbbabbaaa is my toddler Nephew's favorite word. And I have never understood, loved, effectively entertained, got entertained and connected with someone like I do with him. Just a few mins with him washes away my stress like some good iced tea can wash down bad, greasy fast food.
Despite his limited vocabulary he is fed, cleaned, entertained as per his will and specifications. He melts our hearts, makes us smile, tell us when he needs attention, approve and rejects our desperate attempts for his giggles, choose his nursery rhymes and effectually guides us to serve him better.
He makes me wonder if there is anything like an effective communicator.
We speak incessantly. We learn multiple languages and accents. We ruminate over completed and upcoming conversations. We pre plan responses to a phantom conversation or arguments. We try to access people and situations based on the words and their tone. Even with a plethora of words, most relationships, personal and professional, suffer with miscommunication and misrepresentation of our true expression.
May be speaking, with intent, finesse, consideration is over emphasized.
May be like in my nephew's case, the key of good communication is to communicate with the people who are willing, receptive and excited about what you want to express. May be while we over stress on what and how we communicate, we miss finding an audience who is compassionately wanting to hear us. May be this is why romantic relationships, managerial initiatives and political arguments fail.
Though we cannot have completely receptive audience with predictable reaction till we become successful dictators with very creative ways to vanish unfavorite people , we still owe it to ourselves to hang out with some kind-hearted and open-minded audience. Or we can be mindblowingly adorable like little Aaron.
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I could not agree more...❤️
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