If you're this far into the course, I probably don't have to sell you on the importance of communication skills, if you didn't think are important. Why would you be here? But I do think it's important to kind of step back for just a moment and put it in perspective. When you look at the most successful people in any field, whether it's politics, business, high tech, finance, even the sciences, so much of what that person does all day long is they communicate. They speak to investors, to voters, to employees, to vendors, to customers to clients, they have to listen to the concerns of their investors, of their customers of their clients of their patients. The higher you go up in any career, other than perhaps writing novels, it's about how will you communicate in a non written way.

Now, obviously, writing is a form Communication. That's the form of communication. We're going to spend the least amount of time here in this course because it is something that's taught every day in school, your entire life. What's not taught is how to communicate by speaking, verbal communication, nonverbal communication, basically any form of communication, other than writing or typing. That's what isn't taught. And yet, ultimately, that's what could decide whether your career ends here, here, here, or down here.

So I want to congratulate you for devoting some time investing your energy your resources into improving yourself as a communicator. And I would just want to redouble those efforts for you because again, look at the successful people you admire. They might not be silver tongued orders. They are good communicators. Even someone you think of who is not your favorite politician doesn't give a great speech. Even people like that you see them in a small room, one on one or with 10 people, they can have contributors eating out of the palm of their hands.

Now, you may have no interest in running for office or ever asking for money. But I guarantee you there are aspects of your life, your personal life, your professional life, where you can benefit by being a better communicator. So that's why as we go through this whole course, you're going to see some sections that will apply to you some that don't pick and choose as you see fit.