The Quality of your Life is the Quality of your Communication!

I don't care how intelligent you are (although intelligence helps), or whatever personality you have.

This principle almost always works.

Failing an exam?
Failing job interview?
Can't get into desired program?
Program has a big?

Quality of life, material aspects being equal, is all about relationships. And relationships are all about communication. In fact, if you have parties that are very far apart, or very different, communication becomes the one thing one can really control.

And there's also communication with yourself. How do you negotiate with yourself so that you can do the things you don't want to do but end up needing to, without hard feelings?

Up next: I explain why most engineering problems are fundamentally due to communication.