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Occam’s Razor jumps your ability to integrate ideas instantly.
Whenever you face a problem or question of validity, ask yourself this piercing question…
What is the simplest answer?
Because, ‘the simplest answer is usually the best’.
As said by Occam in the 14th century:
“Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity”
As echoed by Albert Einstein:
“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.”
This approach to knowledge is a minimalist one.
- Perhaps you have colleagues excited by the latest business management or marketing fad.
- Perhaps you have friends excited by idealist notions of spirit worlds and global apocalypse.
I suggest that you go easy, and go slowly, because that might be the fastest way of all.
Learn to ask basic questions. Clarify the clutter of complexity. Seek the simplest answer. And only broaden your concepts as new information adds either practical value or eliminates contradiction.
Forget traditional IQ (intelligence quotient) — few are sufficiently blessed with that.
But develop your Integration Quotient for genius-like thinking.
- Learn integrative thinking.
- Ask questions.
- Find the simplest explanations.
- Build from there based on practical value and the elimination of contradictions.
Simple answers reveal similarities between opposing ideas.
Context is crucial for understanding. What is mysticism to some (mind created fanciful ideas), is actually not mysticism to others (because they have integrated the practical value of those ideas).
Remember: The simplest answer is usually the best.
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