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Know Why and How We Communicate

Have you ever really thought about why you communicate? For a moment, forget other questions like when and how well you’re communicating and instead focus on the why.

All of us have moments when we prefer to be alone, but can you fathom a life of solitude where you couldn’t interact with others either face-to-face or virtually? Think of the headlines during the pandemic about sadness, grief, and depression spiking as people tried to adjust to life in isolation and quarantine. Among many other lessons, the pandemic showed us just how much we crave interacting freely with others. Why? Because human communication ...

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