Strengths and Challenges in Communicating

“Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.” - Deborah Tannen.

 This is a famous quote that tells us that communication skill is so important that plays a vital role in human life. Everyday, we communicate with a lot of people including our families, our friends, or even strangers.

As a travel blogger, I had met different kind of people around the world. Interacting with people from different corners of the would will undoubtedly make me a better listener, more compassionate, more willing to understand others, and better at communicating. Traveling isn't just getting to the destination it's about more than that. It bring me to another place where culture, social norms, and language that may have little or complete differences from the way that I live in. Trying to immerse myself the differences and taking part in those surroundings while at the same time respecting cultural boundaries, has made an impact in the way that I communicate with the different kinds of people around.

My weakness in communication is inability to adapt my communication style to different audiences, including people of different generations. My style of communication usually submissive type. I intend behaves as if other people's needs are more important, and other people have more rights and more to contribute. From time to time, this will cause the person exasperated and frustrated.

Edited on 7th February 2016

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