Hello All,
So this is for the first time that I'm trying to participate in answering the question of the week posted in the ecoTrain community. Let me also speak the truth that I've been reading many Q&A post that is posted on this community and really like the perspectives and opinions that are put forth from people across the globe and coming from the different cultural background. It really gives a person insights into many things that he or she would have not at all thought about and as a result, opens up doors to the solutions or problems in hand.
This week's question is around people and understanding them better. Here is the question that has been put forth::
What can we do differently so that people can understand us better?
Let me start my thoughts around this question with this punch line;
Be the Change to See the Change...
Our life revolves around different kinds of people and if we do not understand them, then you can imagine what the consequences would be right? Nobody likes to stay alone or not known by the people living around them. We all love people in some or the other way. May it be our wife, father, son, daughter, friends, teachers, etc we do love them and have a soft corner for people whom we love or have a different feeling for people whom we do not love or hate them. But the truth be told that without people our life would be miserable isn't it?
Different people different Opinion/thoughts
Now that we know that there are different kinds of people around us. It totally depends upon the kind of people with whom you are interacting with. Let's take an example if I'm communicating with my best friend that I very well know that how should I be communicating with him/her so that he understands me. Since he is my friend I'm aware of his personality and I somewhat know his thought process as well whether he will be able to understand what I'm going to tell him.
But whereas when we take an example of talking to a stranger the case is totally opposite and you may not know whether the person is able to match your wavelength, following you what you are saying or is lost somewhere in between the communication.
In simple words, it's very easy to communicate with your loved and dear ones whereas it gets complicated when we are talking to strangers or someone whom we got acquainted with recently.
Understand People & Build Confidence
Here are some of the ways that should be helpful in understanding people or things that we can do differently so that people understand us better. I'm not referring to any books or articles but speaking out my experience with people and how we together can make a difference.
1. Comfort - Build a Comfort Level
Until and unless the comfort level of the person with whom you are speaking is at ease till then you cannot expect things to shape up. What I mean by saying this is that both the parties interacting should be at their comfort level and once this level is build up, I feel that the communication will happen freely and most importantly the subject being talked about will be well understood. Hence build a comfort zone/level with the person whom you are interacting with if you want to understand things better.
2. Simple & easy common language
This is quite an obvious one. But at times when people use high language jargon that's where the problem arises. Now instead of using high-level words or jargon, if a person makes use of a simple and easy to understand words then I feel that we can encourage both ways of communication and ultimately promoting the understandability between both of us for better communication.
3 Are You a Good Listener?
If you are a good listener then you are almost on the right track of people understanding you in the right way/better. Most of the time we would have noticed that when we argue a lot and ignore the other person speaking that's when the problem arises. Try being a good listener and express to the other person that you are listening to him/her with all ears open.
Sometimes it's just a small problem but due to miss communication blunders happen. So in order to avoid big blunders and quarrels its better off to be a good listener and resolve the problem there itself mutually.
Put YourSelf At their Place
This is my favorite. When you place yourself or are able to put yourself in the other person's shoes/place. I think that the understandability between both parties will be very effective. At times we are not able to correlate to the problems the other party is facing or the situation they are into. Just take an example there is one person who is having all the things he ever wanted and there is one person who is having all the problems in life. And now when these two people are communicating I don't think so that understanding will be better until and unless the person who is at his comfort zone is able to put himself in the place where the other person is coming from.
So the point that I'm trying to make here is that we need to see the other side of the picture as well i.e. just think and put yourself into their position and then you would realize and understand things better. It would then make sense of what they are saying and you will be able to correlate all the things. Which ultimately would lead to better understanding and solutions to the problems in hand.
I guess that's all about it that I had to say about doing things differently to understand people better. For building trust, creating a comfort zone level to being a good listener, and putting yourself in another person's shoes. I think we can make a drastic change in understanding people better and as a result, work together in resolving problems rather than quarreling and fighting with each other for no reason.
Be the Change to See the Change...
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