Simple is Difficult!
Summary 
Simple ideas can be difficult to communicate and implement. Complexity is frequently misinterpreted as intelligence. Maintaining simplicity is essential for achievement.
- Simplifying complex ideas is challenging but crucial for effective communication.
- Simple solutions to big problems often require more effort and creativity than complex ones.
- Persistence in promoting and executing simple ideas can lead to scalable and innovative solutions.
In the last few months while traveling and meeting Industry Leaders, Investors, Top Bureaucrats and Ministers, one daunting task I have been facing is to explain to them in two minutes What Jeevitam does and How we Do it? As their attention span is quite limited and if you don't impress them in those two minutes, you have lost them. And believe me this Simple Task of explaining them What & How we do in two minutes has been the most difficult for me, as there is so much to say in so little words. When I say Simple is Difficult, I am simply directing our attention towards the complex solutions and structures we construct resulting in complicating our work & life. A simple person, a simple problem, a simple solution — we place little value on simple. Instead, we hold in high regard the complex, because complexity suggests hard work, commitment, intelligence, diligence, and focus. We need complexity even while we crave simplicity. Simple Ideas are often Difficult to Imagine & Very Difficult to Execute.
"Simple can be harder than the complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” ~ Steve Jobs. When we are looking at a big problem it’s easy to be overcome by the volume of information, the volume of data, the volume of inputs. It’s the rare mind that can look at a problem as a whole and intuit a simple solution. At Jeevitam, we are trying to solve the big problem of helping vulnerable segments and Entry Level Work Seekers find sustainable livelihoods by using a simple solution of Voice as an Interface. However it has been indeed a difficult journey to Execute the Simple Idea of Voice based registration and Voice based match making helping people who are not so educated, not having access to Internet/smartphone, need to be spoken in their native language, help find sustainable livelihoods and their Social & Financial Inclusion.
'Most people understand complexity as intelligence, if they make themselves difficult they are supposed to be intelligent, making a simple thing difficult is not intelligence, making a very complex thing simple is intelligence' ~ Sadhguru. Over the Years I have learnt that we have to keep repeating our Simple Idea again and again till it gets accepted and executed. I believe if we need to scale up any idea, it indeed has to be very very simple. It is not Simple to be Simple, we will have to go through our journey of difficulties. Our journey can be inspired by other people sharing stories of simplicity, but ultimately we will find a version of simplicity that best fits our life & work. So if We want to do something innovative and unique, I suggest we try a Simple Idea that we can Execute Brilliantly. Making it Difficult is Simple. Keeping it Simple is Difficult. Let's All Keep our Work and Life Simple!
Happy Sunday!! Keep Moving & Smiling!!
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