1. How can we achieve effective communication with other people?

Communication is essential to us because it utilizes our abilities of sense, knowledge,

empathy, and reflection. These abilities make us human and superior above any other living thing. To
communicate effectively, we must maximize these to what our capabilities can handle and always put
them into practice.

Our five senses gather information from the physiological aspects around us and send these to
the brain for us to react back to what we sense. The senses of sight, hearing and touch are the most
dominant in communication. They are channels for verbal and non-verbal communication. Sight can
be used for reading, eye contact, seeing one’s gestures and body language. Hearing is for observing
sounds like voices, ambience, and even noise. Touch gives us intimacy with other people like high-
fives, hugging, kissing, yet even physical abuse such as punching. A person with great senses can
significantly observe the intentions of someone or something. They can give feedback with the
appropriate emotions and contribute well in communicating.

Knowledge gives us an advantage in communicating because it gives us more paths in

creating signals and channels yet makes the message easier for everyone else to understand. I believe
that this can make an effective communicator, in which they can balance a conversation of those of
multiple levels by adapting to their way of thinking and understanding. It is also important to know
that when there is knowledge, there is content and meaning to a message. With this, it will make
communications fulfilling with more things to say and more feedback the receiver can give, and vice
versa.

A person with empathy can recognize and understand another’s emotion without the need of
experiencing the same situations. A good example of expressing empathy is listening. Listening
thoroughly shows that you are in the conversation and would not let the message get away from you.
It helps you know what appropriate emotions and encoding you will use to keep a conversation your
way. Empathy can also make sure that others can give their messages clear because they can freely
express them.

Reflecting on something shows that you had an experience then learned from it. Reflection is
important in effectively communicating because it shows that we understand the information we
gathered and see ourselves applying them after. It can also result in better empathy with other people.
We can also use these in the future for sharing to other people and developing better communications.

It is important to set our best efforts to keep these in practice because it will make higher
tendencies to repeat and it will be easier for one to be accustomed. Effective communication