Do you try to optimize at every opportunity? I know I try to. I end up making a complex mess of things at most times but I am usually thinking of optimizing.
Re-reading Scott Adam's book 'How to fail at everything and still win big' lately. I am amazed at how new so many things still feel. One of them is the idea of simplicity Vs optimize.
Scott states how simplifying is a great for building systems and routines. Simplicity makes it easy to follow a routine and save mental energy needed to complete tasks. Optimizing seems attractive for the time investment but adds a layer of complexity that may be taxing our energy and time.
Scott plays a lot of emphasis on energy. Energy is vital for things like motivation, quality of relationships and the drive to complete our to-do list. Energy is impacted by things like health, sleep quality and physical activity. So both the input for energy and the output of having energy give a compounded return.
Until I read Scott's book, I didn't think of energy that way. But Scott is really good at persuasion and I am sold. So one way to maintain my energy is focusing on simplicity over optimization. In the long run, having a simple and effective system will have compounding result.
So I feel clarity coming on - focus on communication and simplification.
Re-reading Scott Adam's book 'How to fail at everything and still win big' lately. I am amazed at how new so many things still feel. One of them is the idea of simplicity Vs optimize.
Scott states how simplifying is a great for building systems and routines. Simplicity makes it easy to follow a routine and save mental energy needed to complete tasks. Optimizing seems attractive for the time investment but adds a layer of complexity that may be taxing our energy and time.
Scott plays a lot of emphasis on energy. Energy is vital for things like motivation, quality of relationships and the drive to complete our to-do list. Energy is impacted by things like health, sleep quality and physical activity. So both the input for energy and the output of having energy give a compounded return.
Until I read Scott's book, I didn't think of energy that way. But Scott is really good at persuasion and I am sold. So one way to maintain my energy is focusing on simplicity over optimization. In the long run, having a simple and effective system will have compounding result.
So I feel clarity coming on - focus on communication and simplification.
