Simplicity

The greatest thing in life, the ultimate key to happiness


is just simplicity.


Coca cola is mainly a carbonated sugared drink and yet the founder is one of the richest man in the world.
Macdonalds is mainly bread and meat + some vegetables and yet it is one of the largest food & beverage chain in the world


Buddhism and Christianity revolves around being simple and remaining at one's core values - Buddha wore nothing but a satin robe, Christ wore nothing but white cloth


Complexities, are merely made up of several "simplicities" interwined together


When you study, what you are study are complex matter, that is basically "simple" stuff explained in a complex manner.
In this world, whatever you have studied, at least 1 million people have studied the same thing. But what really matters, is whether you can digest such "complex" information into something even a layman can understand. This is what the world needs.
Imagine, if you know something complex, you can only talk to the 1 million people who have studied, but the other 1 million people do not know - because they don't study. But if you are able to make that complex thing simple, you can now talk to 2 million people, and still be speaking about the same complex thing!


Microsoft succeeded because it made computing so user-friendly and fool-proof, almost anyone can use it, and hence surpassed Macintosh.


When things are simple, they are focused - as there is no room for gibberish to take place. Do you realise that most famous sayings consists of only a few words? Who remembers famous works that are composition style? The more simple the saying, and the deeper the meaning, the more "famous" it gets.






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nice? Will you ever expect that I learnt all this in a 20 min light-hearted conversation with a taxi-driver? And no boombastic words were used. Plain simple english even a Primary school grader can understand. But what's the morale of the story?

Simple = Good
Really, one of the most inspirational talk I ever had that was so captivating.