We hear about this thing called “communication” all over the show: in relationships, at the office, in the workshop, on the field, and so on. Somehow communication is the solution, especially in conflicts. This is true! However, no-one seems to be telling us how to DO it.
Let us try and define it now …
Communication is defined as:
verb – com·mu·ni·cat·ed, com·mu·ni·cat·ing.
- to impart knowledge of; make known:
to communicate information; to communicate one’s happiness. - to give to another; impart; transmit:
to communicate a disease. - to administer the Eucharist to.
verb (used without object) – com·mu·ni·cat·ed, com·mu·ni·cat·ing.
- to give or interchange thoughts, feelings, information, or the like, by writing, speaking, etc.:
They communicate with each other every day. - to express thoughts, feelings, or information easily or effectively.
- to be joined or connected:
The rooms communicated by means of a hallway.
That is all very well, BUT WHAT IS IT? What are the components? What does it consist of?
There has to be more than one person involved, I mean what good would a telephone be if it was the only one on the planet? How useful is a telephone if it is not connected? So no matter which way we shake this stick, there HAS to be more than one.
Thus we get that there is some form of interaction between these “two of…” Two people then. With that being said, it follows that there would be a start point, and an end point; Person A and Person B. There is a space between the two people. Person A —> distance —> Person B, and of course, vice versa.
Looking at this in a real situation, it could go something like this:
Person A sees Person B, realizes that he knows B and wants to greet him, and wants B to know that A has greeted him.
This is then the thought, idea, concept that A has. A now has to take that formulated thought, idea, concept, and get it delivered to B. A says “Hullo B” directing the words at B. Too little velocity, and the concept does not travel far enough to effect the required result, and by the same token, too much velocity might startle B unpleasantly. Neither result matches with the desired result.
We can now say that A was the cause point, and delivered that across a distance to get B to be the effect point:
CAUSE —> DISTANCE —> EFFECT.
