Fourteen Greatest Ideas for Understanding Communication

Idea 1: Four basic elements of communication

Communication is the art of being understood.

Peter Ustinov

Communication is so integral to being a person that perhaps the worst of all human afflictions is not being able to communicate with others. Moreover, everything we can achieve together in the form of great work depends on our ability to communicate well with each other.

To communicate is a Latin word by origin. It means to share or to make common. As the English language developed and became more specialized, communication came to mean specifically the act of sharing in the mental or non-material realm – such as ideas or feelings – especially, but not exclusively, in and through the ...

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