> “Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!” > > ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods > “The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.” -- Mark Twain Adults lose this skill and falsely associate the number of words with the amount of insight. > Poor communicators ramble. Good communicators leave out unnecessary details. Great communicators treat words as the scarcest commodity. > -- [[Rare Skills]]