The 5 Reasons Good Communication is Like Good Haiku
Anyone who’s looked through my twitter feed can tell that I enjoy writing haiku. The ancient Japanese form is deceivingly simple – you can only have 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the last line. That’s it. You get 17 syllables to express a scene, a feeling, a landscape.
And so, in haiku form, here are the 5 reasons that good communication is like good haiku.
FOCUS
Because of their length
Haiku must have laser sharp
Focus on topic.
ESSENTIALS ONLY
There is zero fluff
No unnecessary words –
Only essentials.
DISCIPLINE
Disciplined in form
But flexible enough for
Creativity.
UNIQUENESS
Form is similar
But the images and words
Are never the same.
BREVITY
Short sweet and pointed –
For who has time to wade through
Lengthy paragraphs?
And those are the 5 reasons I believe good haiku is like good communication.