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Research conducted on the attributes of highly successful people shows that among the number of well perfected qualities that they possess, one of the most important is the ability to communicate precisely and effectively. Mastery of interpersonal communication is without question the most important skill we can ever develop in our life because it affects the way we communicate with ourselves and others. Ultimately every aspect of our lives involves communication. For the time being, forget communication with others. Focus completely on how you communicate with yourself. Your thoughts, ideas, opinions, judgments and assumptions are direct forms of communication within yourself. Every experience that comes through your five senses and into your nervous system is communicated within your mind at some level. This is extremely important to realize because it's your interpretations (self communication) of the world that you respond to, not the actual event. This is why a single event can happen and yet two observers can have two very different reactions to the same stimuli. Do you always get upset when someone laughs at you? Probably not, it depends on your interpretation of why they are laughing, right? Yet the stimulus is the same, laughter! We use communication to make sense of what is happening within our world, yet it is insightful to realize that we do this by creating an internal map or representation of a situation that is not actually reality. Our representation of reality and the interpretation of the world around us has major impact upon our successes, happiness and the level at which we live our lives. These factors influence whether we experience love, joy, connection, satisfaction or gratitude. On the downside, our interpretations may lead to blame, denial, depression, anger and hate.