What do you do when you first hatch a cool idea?

1) You will be momentarily elated with the knowledge of your own genius and the pleasure of conceiving brilliance.

2) You will then think, it’s a cool idea, probably really profitable. Now if it is a million dollar idea, it would probably take a million pounds of effort to achieve, not to mention the fact that solidifying the idea would take more than the capacity of one brain…

And so you may think…

I cannot be more puzzled by the fact that we humans really love to complicate matters. Scholars and thinkers probably find a great deal of self worth in an expression that only they can understand. And since only they can understand, the rest who don’t must be dumber, and should thus pay reverence to the great mind of Confucius, or was it Confusion?

Sometimes I feel there is a whole lot of truth in the statement “It is all in the Mind”. If we think something has to be complicated, we inevitably end up complicating the process of obtaining it, probable stuck halfway through, and either give up or continue in that complicated mess until we eventually find a way out. We then dub this form of effort as perseverance, one of the highest degrees of human character.

Let me try to simply things a little, into 4 simple steps perhaps:

1) We come up with a new idea.

2) We decide to do it.

3) We put it to action, and for parts of it we cannot complete, there will always be another soul out there with the adequate skill to do it.

4) If it fails, too bad.

See, it wasn’t so hard. Simple thought, simple action and there’s no need to blame yourself if it fails, because truly nothing is lost.

I think this also explains my ever decreasing IQ. I believe IQ is really a quantifying tool for how complicated a person’s thought process is. My IQ dropped from 144 to 130 to 115 in 3 months. I think it will eventually become 0, and perhaps then, I can have the same efficiency of thought and communication as ants!