Simple Solutions
A visiting minister from a foreign country was quizzed on how his country had managed to develop faster than India. His reply – we are buddhus (of lesser intelligence), so we have simple solutions to complex problems whereas India is a country of intellectuals and they have complex solutions for even simple problems! This should be an eye-opener for us and perhaps sums up why we have managed to develop so slowly in spite of our vast intellectual resources – we think of complex solutions to all our problems which could have been solved with much simpler solutions. The future lies in simplicity – it really does. There is an old saying that you need to look at complex tasks as a collection of simple tasks and try accomplishing each as you would do to a single simple task. You will realize that the complex task certainly becomes simple. But going to hair-splitting lengths to analyse and finally complicate matters will certainly have no benefit. We may get theoretical answers to everything on earth but will not be able to accomplish any task efficiently and on time. The motto for us is clear – think simple and act simple and keep our complicating brains out of the way, at least till the time we become a developed nation. Every one of us needs to follow this and realize that simplicity does not mean ignorance – it is simply a better way to do things.
