Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Simplicity is #GFY

GFY Method is about going back to the basics, unloading the social and cultural baggage that keeps you from being the best and doing what's best for yourself. The baggage is acquired as we progress through life, to the point where it becomes an impediment and a liability. Here is what Steve Jobs had to say about simplicity:

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. When you start looking at a problem, it seems really simple—because you don’t understand its complexity. And your solutions are way too oversimplified, and they don’t work. Then you get into the problem and you see it’s really complicated. And you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That’s where most people stop, and the solutions tend to work for a while. But the really great person will keep going and find the key underlying principle of the problem and sort of come full circle with a beautiful, elegant solution that works. And that’s what we wanted to do with Mac.”

(Wired Magazine, November 2011)

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