Communication

Communication is a key ingredient to world peace and personal sanity. Being of such a complex endeavor, an entire page is devoted to understanding proper communication.

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• To properly communicate, one takes the other's language, cultural norms, and capability into account so as to speak on his or her level to facilitate understanding.
• "Unasked advice is aggression." [2]
• Unasked correction is advice with an added punch to the groin (use with caution).
• Announcing another's failures with no concern for guiding them in a method that works for them should be labeled as a criminal offense for inciting emotional outbursts leading toward insanity.
• A person must wish to learn in order to learn well.
• Apologies should be acknowledged as either accepted, unaccepted, or else clarified.
• Friendliness aids in communicative ability.
• Communication is still communication even if it is misunderstood or misinterpreted--it was merely ineffective.
• Perceived communication that does not exist obviously does not exist, but the converse is also true.
• Not taking the time to understand what a person means is the direct opposite of good communication.
• Constraining an individual in how they are 'allowed' to communicate is beyond rude and puts up a communicative barrier.
• Calling others delusional and uplifting one's own superiority and capability is beyond rude and puts up a communicative barrier.
• Consciously behaving toward another in manners known to be rude to that individual should be labeled as a criminal offense.
• The person of higher intellect has more responsibility to meet the communicative ability of the person with lesser intellect.
• It may be impossible to communicate effectively with certain people.
• If you argue with a fool, it's hard to tell who's the fool.
• Emotion is rarely useful in communicating except when manipulating others.
• Both parties must wish to understand the other for communication to be effective.
• Only a fool would speak everything in his mind without concern for its effect.
• Consider first whether or not a person is worth communicating with at all.