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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 177, 17 July 1908, Page 4

THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS.

) To be able to convey a thought so thai ■ another person can readily comprehend ; it is a valuable accomplishment. JGui- , plo.vees arc often blamed for stupidity and slowness of comprehension when tha trouble is really the superior's lack of ability to impart a thought well. I do ' not mean lo say that such is always the 1 case, for the facts lo disprove it are too obvious. But Ido say that more attention might he paid by all persons who have iustruetims to give to the maimer of presenting the thought so as to make it most readily intelligible to another. An authority on literary expression has said that no thought i s ever fully conveyed to another—so the whole question is one of degree. The burden of conveying the thought rests with the speaker or writer. If the hearer cannot grasp the message when it is put one way, thii speaker must put it another way. It does no good to rail at the hearer's stupidity, if you were able to impart your message so clearly that anyone could understand it there would be no trouble. It should be the pride of every person issuing instructions that he can make himself understood by any one. Even great thinkers misunderstand each other. This should remind us all to be ehiirilable towards those who do not understand us the first time we speak in an unskilful manner of something that seems clear to us, but which is not clear to them.

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