Is it the sign of the strong to desire simplicity and strength?
For example in artwork, I believe the best compositions are simple, strong, and dynamic.
In everyday living, it seems that the simple life is the best life. Simplicity as pruning away the superfluous, in order for us to economize our strength to maximize our personal artistic-output//for us to only direct our energies towards things which genuinely interest us.
Simplicity is strength
An idea:
Perhaps the notion of ‘simple’ just means: condensed strength, with no waste/excess.
For example, simple movements (consider a deadlift) are clean, effective, minimal movement, and no wasted energy. All energy is directed towards a singular purpose.
Simple is not stupid. Simple is infinitely complex– which makes the artistic act of simplifying so challenging, interesting, and difficult.
For example, for Apple/Jony Ive/Design team to get rid of the home button on the iPhone X, they had to totally re-imagine the user-interface/UX. I personally think the sliding from the bottom UI-gesture is brilliant. Now everyone stole the idea and is copying it.
But to come up with the initial simple solution took TREMENDOUS amount of thinking and brain-power.
Creating a simple yet effective platform
Similar to building up the UI/UX of arsbeta.com — it took an insane amount of brainpower and thinking to simplify photographic feedback to just critique, ‘keep’, ‘ditch’. Even the simple idea of clicking the ‘ditch’ or ‘keep’ button to ADVANCE to the next image is a powerful one (I learned this from Lightroom, where you can press ‘caps lock’ during the image-flagging phase, and when you press ‘P’ or ‘X’ it automatically advances to the next image).
Simplify and strengthen yourself
Strengthen yourself and simplify yourself. Simplify your thinking, but add more strength to your (few) ideas.
Strengthen your muscles, and do it via simple exercises (chinup, deadlift, dumbell press, kettlebell swings).
Have a will towards SIMPLIFYING your life, and STRENGTHENING yourself (physically, mentally, artistically). Prune the superfluous, subtract fat, and add muscle and focus.
Itseems this is an effective goal.
ERIC
