March 3, 2017 OPEN YOUR EARS, LET THE UNDERSTANDING BEGIN I guess I’m on a communications kick these days, so hear we go again (misspelling on purpose)! Is there a difference between what you hear and what the other person is saying? See my favorite, Gary Larsen, and his famous Farside cartoon. Is this how you are communicating, either hearing or speaking? Is your message getting lost in translation? And how will you know if your message has been received clearly or how can you be sure you heard someone else’s message as it was meant to be understood? For lack of a more elegant process, maybe repetition will work? If…