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Contextual learning involves finding links from classroom learning to applications in real life. By purposely associating what we learn with real world applications, that learning becomes much more useful.

Recently I experienced a pronounced example of how context affects our ability to use what we learn...

I can already touch type using the standard QWERTY keyboard configuration, but I'm currently learning the Dvorak keyboard layout. The Dvorak layout was designed so that the most common keys are more easily available to your fingers, meaning you can type faster.

Communication skills are our ability to connect with those who are not us; to become part of the bigger collective genius. To feel humble enough to understand one is nothing compared to the giant machine of which we are individually just one cog. But to realise that by placing ourselves in the right place, we can harness the energy of this collective power and turn it into something incredible.

There are many skills to develop in order to become highly skilled communicators. These tend to spread across the categories below, but I have placed them where I think they fit best.

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The majority seek their greatest connection with just one other. Effective communication is so complex and multifaceted that it makes perfect sense to try to achieve the ultimate bond with just one other. Monogamy and total life commitment is not unique among human but it is certainly one of our defining qualities.