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I think 2020 will be the year of simplicity.

Notice I didn’t say simplification.

You can incorporate simplification if you plan on achieving greater simplicity in your life.

Technology has complicated life when it should have made things easier.

I remember when we talked about how computers were supposed to make our lives easier.

As we begin the 2020’s the talk is of how robots will make our lives easier and in so doing will help us fulfill the end game that is simplicity.

I sure hope so.

But I have my doubts.

I’m typing stories on computers.

I was typing stories on computers 25 years ago.

Some things never change.

Technology in the form of computers or robots will not ever make our lives easier.

What it does do, I grant you, is suck you into something it cannot deliver no matter how well it is marketed.

2020 sounded weird on January 1st of this month.

And it sounds weird still today.

Complication as a positive

You’ve heard the saying, “It’s complicated.”

It’s typically used to describe a relationship that is not ordinary.

Complication, in this case, is not necessarily a bad thing. It just means that there may be simplicity to be gained.

At some point, if the parties involved in something that’s complicated desire to simplify for simplicity’s sake, it might be considered taking a positive and turning it into another completely different positive.

It’s complicated indeed.

If people are honest, they might say that complication is sexier than simplicity.

Simplicity, on the surface, would appear to make something, someone or some group of people easier.

Complication, perhaps below the surface, appears to stir up challenges.

Challenges are anything but easy.

Success is not easy, it is earned.

Really?

You mean success never comes easy?

Of course it can. And it does. I just don’t have any examples of how at the moment.

Experiment in complexity

I would say one of the more curious things to try in life may be experiments in complexity.

What is an experiment in complexity?

It’s doing something less simple than it should be done to determine whether or not it would have been better if you had overly complicated the process instead.

I would suggest you do more than one experiment in complexity, too, to be able to take an average of the benefits of doing things the hard way.

Does success always take hard work?

Can it come easy provided you work hard?

Or can it come easy regardless of how hard you work?

When I was younger I thought attractive people had an advantage when it came to making something of themselves in life.

However, I did not think that ugly people did not have a chance to be successful. My thought was they just had to work harder in life to achieve things that seemed to come easier for attractive people.

And I think studies have proven this observation to be somewhat accurate.

One of the key things to remember in any of this is that simplicity is achieved through the process of simplification.

Just don’t come running to me for answers when things start to get complicated.