2. The master's mind understands that there is no such thing as mastery of complexity; only mastery of simplicity. The essence of the master's teaching is to patiently, dilligently break down the amateur's ego investment in a mistaken worldview.
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3. 'Wax on, wax off' remains one of the achievements of cinema as an artform; those few minutes of film manage to capture not only one or two 'life lessons' but an entire paradigm shift.
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4. An attachment to complexity is a commitment to avoidance, because complexity permits it; it can be stretched whichever way. Simplicity requires directness, the sacrifice of the superfluous, the regimentation of unbounded conceptual potentiality into a concrete, existing form.
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5. Simplicity is unforgiving, and it does not lie. This is the reason it is meticulously avoided by the amateur who is more interested in the ideas of simplicity and mastery rather than the honest self-investigation required by their actual process.
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6. The path to mastery is the progressive realization and proficiency with deeper levels of simplicity. And the quickest way to get to simplicity, is through simplicity. The long way—if you ever intend to get there—is through complexity.
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Incredible. So insightful. How, may I ask, through what medium or means did you make this observation? Through studying what?
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By studying myself and my mistakes. Earlier in life, by studying music and only now understanding what a bad student I was, and what a great teacher I had.
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To me, similar occurrences and experiences happened as I was studying math in college. Complexity overwhelmed me and I struggled with the meaning of math. Recently I read this quote by Kurt Godel which resonates also with your tweets.pic.twitter.com/OhgRfoMtZ5
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To understand something fully, one must understand it in terms of its wider, all-encompassing context.
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