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Anant Gupta

Simplicity

"One day I'll find the right words, and they will be simple."

A while ago, I was having a conversation with a friend about why do people need to overcomplicate everything. An interesting point he raised was that is theorized that you could write all the theories/laws of physics on a piece of paper. This piece of paper would be the answer to everything. But to get there, to simplify the complex structure of the universe, we'll have to dive deep into the complex system. And you know what- this is a nail on the head. We've seen many people rant over and over that we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. All the wisdom and lessons are there. It is all simple. Except, it is not. You never truly appreciate the simple stuff unless you have experience the pain of going through the gruesome complex process. You want simplicity, you will need to untangle the hard stuff. Only in hindsight we can see how obvious something was.


And this applies to everything. When people come to me and ask for investment advise, they are expecting me to give them some magic answer. Buy this stock and you'll 10x your money. Use this magic technical indicator to see what will happen in the future. Here is my Python code for the algorithm that makes 000s everyday. They are disappointed when I tell them to pick a mutual fund, maybe some btc, be diversified, read books by people like Lynch and do their own research etc. It is simple but then now I realize, I've done the same as them. Spent countless hours trying to find the perfect trading setup, flip a stock over and over again to earn 2 cents. It was only after the grind that I simplified my approached to investing (or maybe could not simplify trading like the telegram gurus).


Another example of this is time saving for productive purposes: We often get lectured by parents that we overpaid for something, we should've browsed more and tried to save a few pennies. They mean well. They also don't understand this simple concept of keeping things simple. You go out, get the thing you want, maybe overpay a bit for quality and SAVE TIME. You saved energy and time by keeping that process simple. Now you can focus on your work (not saying that you go out and spend like a maniac). Same thing I've seen in fitness: "Influencers" who look good and are genetically blessed showing gimmicky useless exercises, when most people should just to the basics and they'd make amazing progress. We see entire books written on self-help/motivation, when they need not be more than a blog post. Or the blog post need not be more than a tweet (maybe this blog, hehe). Or a tweet that should not exist?


We also like to complicate things because we love to show off. Simple is boring. But someone has to do the dirty work. Someone has to try to find little tricks so that we can discover new things. That is how you simplify. We'll continue to overcomplicate things, but if our purpose is clear, we'll get to simplicity.

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