One look at the online store eBay will tell you how popular the slogan Keep it Simple is Judge Judy Sheindlin wrote a book titled Keep it Simple Stupid about amusing true crime cases. “I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.” “I do not over-intellectualize the production process,” he once said. Though his stories were teeming with complex political and military intrigue, the writing of the books themselves required a whole lot of simplicity. Contemporary advocates of keeping things simple included the prolific author Tom Clancy, whose complicated novels included The Hunt for Red October and Clear and Present Danger. So, the idea of keeping things simple has long been in the lexicon of mankind’s languages. Half a century before that, in 551 BC, the great Chinese teacher, Confucius, had this to say: “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” He also advised to “Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Around the year AD 55, the Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 11:3, “But I fear, lest somehow the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” The concepts and origins of the value of simplicity are thousands of years old. Variations of the Keep It Simple term were not invented by da Vinci (1452-1519) nor the A.A. has been, the Keep It Simple slogan has become closely associated with the fellowship that has saved countless lives. birthed blossomed to over 2 million members around the world. Yet, somehow, though they didn’t get to see the current version, the baby which Dr. With membership including rubbies, rummies, pill-poppers, atheists, agnostics and mentally disordered crackpots from all walks of life, it wasn’t exactly a recipe for success. Through growing pains, which included rejections, salutations, anonymity breaks, scientific and religious praise and plenty of scathing reviews, too, there was nothing simple about it. The two co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (pictured above) launched an anything-but-simple, volunteer, not-for-profit organization with no rules and no president. The history of recovery from addiction tells us that if ever there were two men who had reason to be losing their minds to sophisticated chaos, it was William Griffith Wilson and Robert Holbrook Smith. Leonardo da Vinci is often credited with saying that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.Īlbert Einstein put it this way: If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.
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