Simplicity
To keep your life simple means putting time into the most important things. Pick a few things you really want, and invest heavily into them: a few friends, businesses, and hobbies at one time.
How to choose?
- Choose activities that give you the most energy.
- Choose an exercise or sport as one of the activities to focus on. Competition experience is a great teacher and motivator. Also, your brain is physical.
- Avoid people who complicate to your life.
- Choose a city without distractions unless the network matters for what you do. In which case, live in the burbs. Nothing fun happening there.
Some people call it focus. I call it simplicity.
“Buffett’s decision to limit his activities to a few kinds and to maximize his attention to them, and to keep doing so for 50 years, was a lollapalooza.”
Simple things are robust because they have slack in the system.
A novice is easily spotted because they do too much. Too many ingredients, too many movements. Too much explanation. A master uses the fewest motions required to fulfill their intention.