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My Experience On Communication

One skill which is essential as a common, powerful tool across all the
bandwidths of various professions is the skill to communicate effectively.
This one skill alone can make all the difference between a winning ‘horse’
and an ‘also ran’.
The ‘gift of the gab’ has always been
extolled from the beginning of human
civilization. But as the pundits of
communication will agree,
communication skill is not about just
talking incessantly or voluminously. On
the contrary, the chatterboxes may be
considered very poor in communication.
The Science of Communications has
taken giant strides and facilitated
communications at an unbelievable
speed between unimaginable distances.
It has also enabled the availability of modern technology to all at a reasonable
cost. In good old times, it is believed that people even used to rely on pigeons
for conveying messages.
Contrast that with today where people stay pigeon-holed in their rooms to
send messages across the globe in seconds! But alas! The art of
communication continues to favour only a few lucky among us. Such gifted ones
are destined to stride like a colossus amidst us, whatever their chosen calling. But
there is no use feeling low about it as History tells us that this has been the case
always.
Guess what Chanakya, Birbal and Tenaliram had in common? Or, more recently,
Churchill, Hitler and Mahatma Gandhi?
All were high priests of communication.
Most of us might remember the famous play ‘Julius Caesar’ and the speeches
given therein by Mark Anthony and Brutus after Caesar’s death. In these scenes,
immortalized by the great Shakespeare, the crowd mood is alternately swayed by
the thundering, powerful speeches of the two rival orators.
Such is the power of communication. As said before, it is an inborn
talent. But this skill can also be carefully nurtured with the guidance of modern
communication experts.
Coming back to present times, it is the truly skilled communicator who
manages to get plum jobs in almost any sector of employment. Other things
being equal (or even a little unequal) it is the person who presents himself or
herself most agreeably in interviews and group discussions that walks off with
the job in any campus. The same principle holds good later in career

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