A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat.
A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were.
The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”
The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”
I wrote: “Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it.”
Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky that they were not blind. We communicate with people every day, but sometimes we do not adjust our communication style to the audience or situation. Learn how to adapt the way you communicate to different situations by considering the many factors that influence the effectiveness of your communication. It’s an art. The more words you use to, lesser the impact. Economy of words is an important weapon in communication armory.
Shoehorned economy of words it appears as sign the second was in fact the more verbose. Probably best to stick to point and save economy for it's own piece.