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Life Isn’t a Mess, You Make It a Mess
There’s a truth to embrace — don’t waste any more time
Are you among those who embellish their failures by blaming someone else, like fate, the neighbor, the boss at work, and so on? Stop reading. This article won’t help you. Nothing will help you.
Do you feel you deserve something better, but don’t know where to start to make a change? You’re not alone, and this article is for you. You won’t read shortcuts but foundations.
The point is to avoid contaminating simplicity with complexity invented ad hoc as an alibi for our ignorance.
Induced complexity
Ignorance is the engine of induced complexity. What the hell is that?
Imagine observing twenty-two people running inside a rectangle drawn on the ground. Eleven have shirts of one color, and the other eleven have shirts of another color. A ball bounces between people, with a peculiar tendency to move towards one or the other end of the rectangle.
I know you recognized a football game, but imagine you don’t know what football is. How would you describe what you see…
