Avoid Misunderstandings: 3 Ways I Improved The Way I Communicate
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”-George Bernard Shaw
I have a habit of replying with the word “huh” when I can not hear what was said to me clearly and I need it to be repeated.
If you can huh you can hear.
I’m from Virginia and where I’m from if someone says huh as a request to repeat what was stated then they are sometimes met with the phrase “If you can huh you can hear”. Meaning if you heard the sounds I made then you know what I said.
A friend of mine used to say this to me all the time. I often grew frustrated because I needed to have what was stated repeated because I could not make out the words and I have had my hearing checked, my hearing is not a problem. Sometimes we hear sounds but the words are uttered in such a way that we just don’t know what was said. It’s one of the reasons that people with perfectly good hearing watch shows with the closed caption option turned on.
Mixed Messages
I was once in a meeting with a group of people and when we left the meeting we realized that we all heard the same words but received different messages. Half of us were…
