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Reflection on the course

During the course of this module there is a huge emphasis on effective communication , at the start of this course I felt that my weakness are not being too serious and an over eagerness to talk in the middle of other people 's conversations. I also wanted to be better at expressing my thoughts better as I am a very quick speaker and tend to stutter a lot when speaking, which sometimes can result in others not understanding what I wanted to convey. Looking back at the past 2 months, I feel that I have gotten a little better at trying to communicate with others. First is active listening and non-verbal communication, I felt that these two helped me in my weakness in communication, as from active listening I can tell when the other party is being serous or not, as from the feedback  I received from my first post I learnt that not being serious in important conversations can be seen as rude to the other party, now I am paying more attention to the other party when speaking, and thin...
                              Sometimes conflicts are bound to happen whether one likes it or not, and in this scenario usually one are put into a tough spot because attempting to solve this would usually require one to step out of their comfort zone and attempt to talk things out.                  During my final year in polytechnic I had a very bad argument with one of my FYP groupmate, and to me he is one of my closest friends. The conflict started off simple , I was using my laptop to play a game during break and he walks up to me and ask to borrow it for a while. I agreed but said I will do so after my game , then in between another of my friends walks up and just used my laptop after asking even though I gave him the same response as I did for my groupmate  as I cannot really stop someone from just straight up taking my things from me. My g...