The Greatest woes of Communication ….

A great saying regarding the communication is :

“ The biggest communication problem is we don’t listen to understand.  We listen to reply. Pause yourself and think one more time.”

One of my friends sent this message to me through Whatsapp and I don’t know who has coined these golden words but after reading these words, I was surprised and amazed after going through these words.  This simple sentence has deep meaning itself.

These words have cent percent relevance.  In our daily life, whether we are in office or at home, we listen only to reply –so that we can defend ourselves.   Sometimes, we give reply in the middle of the conversation without listening the entire thing and often its backfires. 

Sometime at Home, we immediately reacts to our relatives without listening them properly and later on, we realized our mistake and same thing happened in our office too. 

The thumb rule of effective communication is – First Listen carefully and understand it and then react, only if it is necessary. 

My advice is , first listen very carefully , understand it thoroughly for the intention of the communication and then reply it.   We are always in a hurry to replying.  Start Pausing yourself before replying , it will definitely keeps you above from the rest.

George Bernad Shaw further added through this quote , “ The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

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