Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify simplify - Henry David Thoreau

The quote was written back in the 1850's it is true today than ever. The level of detail is now absurd and makes anything that we do seem like an impossible task but misses the point of how things work. Just imagine you could not eat anything unless you knew the details of your digestive system. In many ways that is what we do with everything, most things need just to be attempted and basic modicum of knowing or even no knowledge to make it happen.

Cooking is a good example of this (as well as music) just follow the recipe without knowing why it works, just follow the information that is required and that is it. In many instances knowing why something works does not increase its effectiveness and maybe life is like that, creativity certainly is. 

I have been going over much of my old NLP material for a project that I am doing and the idea of modelling someone who is good at the task you want to improve points to this. Just do what they do, nothing else, keep it simple and follow the path. the whys and wherefores do not improve this, just keep to the simple plan and do what they do. 

We need  time to create and we need uncluttered thinking to do this creating, much of the information we are being fed confuses us. What I used to see in adults that was a form of uncreativeness caused by the need for permission to be given before they could even think about letting go I now see it in children; the situation has not been helped by computers but is being made worse. Again if we look at what children do, they just copy what they see and what they feel and what they hear, there is no analysis just copy and then play with it. 

So as we enter another year and we are released from 2018 and all the chaos that has resulted from our political thinkers maybe the only thing for us is to keep it simple.
If complexity is the way then we would have found it by now, the way for us to deal with the modernity is for there to be more simplicity in our individual dealings with the world.

Now there's a thought. 

Vic 

www.bluescampuk.co.uk 

play in a rock band .. it is simple

What is in an age?

What is in an age? Forty the time of the grandparent

Sometimes we need to think of what our biological clock is telling us physically and mentally. We think that we have progressed, evolved however physically that is not true we are still inhabiting the same bodies as our ancestors but we are not as fit and we are not strong as they were.

In the past people would have by the age of 20 been parents by the age of 40 being grandparents by the age of 60 great-grandparents. Even by the age of forty we would be relying more on our wisdom than on our physicality. does this mean that our learning of information and skills is better earlier and that age brings with it a depth of understanding not available to the young? maybe it does, maybe it means that the learning of something like a musical instrument and its physical skills happen easier then but that age brings with it the ability to speak something deep with it. 

If we take that idea and move it into the world of work and todays obsession with technology does that mean that someone of twenty can run rings around someone of forty in the world of technology? Yes it does and you can see it happen. The reason for saying this is that someone trained in a skill that is changing rapidly such as computing needs to update information may be on the scrapheap by the age of 35, but his wisdom and application may not be. So look at what is happening to everything going online and becoming more technical, the older ones in society are being left behind HOWEVER they have always been the holders of wisdom in human society apart from our youth addicted 'culture' and the ones who know things on a deeper level, so what does that say for the society that we are in? 

So to music, the physical learning is better early in life but the depth comes later, so if you want to learn a skill in music making it in the early years is when to do it, then stick with what you know going deeper with age, retraining may well be a mistake both in music and in life. 

Vic 

www.bluescampuk.co.uk