Get to the Point!

You see, I've realised that one of the major barriers to communication  and achieving mutual understanding, is that people simply refuse to get to the point! In trying to bring one point across, we tend to ramble and ramble and ramble some more, leaving the receiver to try to pull some sense out of all of our nonsense and sift through all the noise we're creating. Some of us, and am sure a lot of men will attest to this, even expect the receiver to read our minds. I had this very experience while presentations were taking place last week in my Organisational Communication class, instead of simply telling me what the concepts were, the presenters went on and on about examples that I wont understand without knowing the concept. It seems they expected me to read their minds to get what they were trying to say when all they had to do was GET TO THE POINT! So, word of advice to all you communicators out there, don't make the receiver have to work to understand what your saying, talk straight, say what you mean and GET TO THE POINT!