1. The mind of an amateur, in its ignorance, only perceives complexity and invariably misunderstands mastery to be proficiency with complexity. The more complex something appears to it, the more appealing the prospect of its conquest, for the real motive is insecurity and fear.
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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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