<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Communication and success are inextricably linked... > Communication and success are inextricably linked for a structural reason, not a motivational one: success is never a private event. Every meaningful outcome — a marriage, a company, a discovery, a movement — is a coordination, and coordination is built from nothing but meaning that survived the crossing between minds. This is why e{E{very talent you possess waits in line behind your ability to be understood.}} Life learned the lesson long before we did. {{DNA is a message that builds its own reader.}} A body is trillions of cells succeeding, moment by moment, at understanding one another, and much of what we call disease is the conversation breaking down. The pattern widens without changing. Fire had to be tamed only once; it has had to be explained ever since, because knowledge that cannot travel dies with its keeper. In the final accounting, c{C{ivilization is everything the dead managed to explain to the living.}} **Source:** [[breakouts/Communications|Communications]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->