Creative Process

1+1 = [(27/3)/3]-1

Are you making things needlessly complicated in your life? If so, you are creating potential for dissonance to creep in.

With each purposeless complication in our systems, lives, etc., we are creating more friction in the machine. More places for something to go wrong. More places for things to not "add up" right. More chances for mistakes we’ll pay for in mental energy and focus.

Dissonance in music is when two notes are played simultaneously that don’t resolve. When we hear them, our minds want resolution SO bad that we will often subconsciously resolve them. If not, then our minds will continue to try to resolve them, (solve the problem), until there is an appropriate solution.

The same thing happens in our lives. When there are things that don’t add up, our minds go about trying to solve the problem even when we’re unaware. This is wasted creative (problem solving) energy.

Strive for simplicity in your systems, communications, processes, etc. As Einstein is so over-quoted for saying, "Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." 

Simple = Good. That’s an equation I can live with. 

 

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