A couple of years ago I wrote a blog, more like a detailed paper, titled
Seeking Simple.
Seeking Simple is about making good decisions.
Seeking Simple is about really communicating.
Seeking Simple is about solving problems.
Seeking Simple is about reducing our stress levels.
Seeking Simple© is about more than that…but that’s a good-enough introduction for now.
Here are a couple of pieces of inspiration…
A 14th century English friar, William of Ockham, came up with a razor [rule of thumb] that has been translated many ways, one being:
When confronted with multiple solutions to a problem, choose the simplest one.
In 1916, Robert Updegraff created a little classic book titled, ‘Obvious Adams: the story of a successful businessman’. [I am thrilled to have a 1916 copy, with a most-endearing father-to-son note penned on the title page.] Obvious Adams is a little story about a fellow who sees what everyone else misses. While everyone else is bogged down in the details, Obvious Adams sees the obvious. And, the obvious is simple. We can learn from Obvious Adams.
Here’s a link to an Obvious Adams book review
My goal here was to introduce the concept - Seeking Simple.
I would like to obtain help from you folks who read my blog…I would like to hear or read your stories about how simple decisions or simple communications or simple solutions to problems have served you well.
So, please, if you have some personal anecdotes then please share them with me…and our other readers.
More about Seeking Simple in future blogs…