So I am not exactly done with school yet, I have a freshman level sociology course to complete and I am working on it as we speak. As I post anyway…

So here is the latest thought:

As humans we unconsciously categorize things around us: books, people, clothing, music, products, etc… It is not something that is directly negative, but rather a contributor to treating each “thing” differently based on its category.

Therefore it is important to understand how we categorize and understand the effects they have on each “thing”. As well, we should attempt to simply acknowledge these categorizations and the general concepts that are associated to them, but not limit each thing to how it is categorized

The example above was taken from a book, but is no means any categorization I place all my friends in. For the typical social view of masculine vs. feminine things, they are generally true, but how many of you could put all of your male or female friends into one set or the other?

Again, it is important to acknowledge generalizations, but not to place an entire group into one or another. Anyway, they are generalizations…general, not specific.

Enjoy…

So I am not trying to categorize anyone, or toot my own horn. I very simply want to start off by making a distinction between simple minds and complex minds at this particular moment for me.

Simple minds are those that do not consider every possible outcome, whereas the complex minds do. The simple minds simplify equations by dropping the unlikely variants from sight up front, and deal with them later on only if they arise. The complex minds consider all variants up front, complicating the equation any time it is used.

Generally, by simplifying things one can achieve great speed and agility, and overall greater happiness.

One might ask why someone may want to be a complex thinker? I don’t say I know the answer, but I will say that complex thinkers swing both extremes of pessimism and optimism.

I think the only reason this blog entry exists is due to arriving at one of these extremes. I’ll allow the user to be the judge…

But I would like to reverberate one theme in life that I feel is of great importance: happiness through simplicity™.