Reading Between The Lines One key aspect of communication with others is being able to read between the lines. How? As long as we can practically put ourselves in others’ shoes, it won’t take much effort to understand the true thoughts people have. There is one takeaway I want to underscore: everything coming out of a person’s mouth makes sense, no matter how it may sound illogical in the context Sometimes we find one person say something weird or unnatural, then we will shrug it off our mind. But there is always logic behind those unnatural words. For example, the other day, my grandpa suddenly popped up a question to me, asking me why people stopped doing traditional things for spring festival these years. For example, grandson would stand on hands and knees, greeting to grandpa on the New Year’s Eve, and grandpa would give red paper containing money as a gift. At first, I was surprised by having this conversation with my grandpa, not being able to grasp his points. It was until my mom told me that my grandpa wanted to help me learning I was short of money at that time, I got what he had really meant. So, in order to be perceptive, don’t ignore any word, sentence or even a moment of silence,