Any One Can Do It

Over the past half-century, scores of communication classes have emerged at colleges and universities throughout the world. At the same time, scholars have initiated countless professional and academic professions and publications as vehicles through which to delve into this field of study as deeply and thoroughly as possible. In addition, the profession of communication itself has skyrocketed like few others to the extent where one would be hard-pressed to identify an organization or business without some sort of communication arm having a key role in its structure. Without question, communication as a field of study and practice has arrived.

Given all this still growing interest in terms of how communication works and effective ways for it be carried out, here is a dirty-little secret about this act and/or/practice: It is almost impossible to totally fail in any effort to communicate. Take the most inarticulate person or, perhaps more realistically, those moments when we ourselves are attempting to make a point yet struggle with coming up with the exact words we wish to use. Even then, we impart some sort of meaning in what we do send out. We do gain the attention of the audience with which we are attempting to communicate. Despite that, a message has been received.

All of us have so many powerful communication tools at our disposal. They range from facial expressions and body language to voice inflections and even hand gestures. And then there is our ability to write or draw. All this makes it virtually impossible not to succeed to some extent when trying to communicate a particular message or share some sort of information. Communication, then, is an act that everyone not only can do but does do. This is why the primary focus of this field of study and practice continues to revolve around such aspects as how to do it better and various elements that drive it. It is already understood that any fool can do it.