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March 13, 2016
Simplicity Underrated
We find many people, concepts, problems and world complicated or over complicated. We find each person as UN-UNDERSTANDABLE being, we find every concept as bias and we even don’t understand ourselves. No one has a level of simplicity inside them; people complicate themselves too much and remain “UN-SIMPLE”.
Why is that? and What is simplicity?
Simplicity is understanding, people, concepts, world and even we in the simplest form by not making it over-complicated. Simplicity is remaining attached to the truth. It is remaining attached to the real world. How can person understand everything in a simplest form? How is that at all, possible? It is possible, by eradicating over complicity. Whenever we come across a problem, we always ask hard questions or difficult questions and make it more complicated. When I first read price determination in a market, I did not understand it. In that, only price changes and all the determinants of supply and demand remained constant. Why? I asked but I made it more complicated, why in microeconomics things remain constant and only price changes? It is very illogical. Then I read demand, in law of demand Alfred Marshal, assumes that every determinant of demand is constant and only price changes. It is Illogical and irrational, Alfred marshal is mad. How does a person’s demand is related to only price? I told to myself. Then I thought about it, and then I understood that Alfred Marshall showed the law in the simplest way, he remained concerned with price, only because price is the only determinant of both consumers and suppliers, both can relate to it. God Wow!!!!!
We remain UN-SIMPLE because we ask complicated questions in the beginning without even understanding simplest questions. We have to understand, people, concepts, problems and events in the simplest form and then no matter how hard we try we cannot complicate it. The thing is to start asking simple questions and find the truth and try to make it complicated but it remains simple. We can also apply this in our lives. A friend of mine, not to mention his name, he is so obsessive over his dressing sense, looks and personality, so he complicates himself by taking other’s opinion about him, ‘Does this shirt look short’ he asks and I reply, ‘No’ and he doesn’t believe it. In his mind, he had made himself complicated, caring too much about his looks, dressing sense and personality. If he had asked simple questions regarding his style and personality and if he had understood it in simple form then he would not care too much.
In today’s technological and scientific world, logic, reason and intelligence is very overrated and wisdom, intuition and understanding are underrated. I always used to show myself as the smartest person in the room, then I made very less friends, then one day , I remained simple, or say stupid, remaining stupid is simple to me. I made my friends laugh and made another more friends. If we have to understand ourselves or anything at a deeper level, we have to start asking simpler questions, and understanding them, the more complicated we make it, the UN-SIMPLE it gets. Try it, because I had, and I am still trying to maintain my simplicity.
Shaikh Ashraf.
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March 9, 2016
How to find Passion?
I have finished two years in junior college and I have something in mind regarding my future studies but what I find among most of my peers is that they are unable to find their aim in life and think about their career and I always question that why is that? Why they don’t know anything about their life, why is that they don’t know anything about their dreams and way forward? What do they lack?
It is Passion. Passion is when you wake up in the morning and you know what to do with your day to make your life more successful. Passion is finding what you love in your life and living with it. Passion is loving your life, your choices and your dreams. But many people lack passion or they are impassioned. Why is that? Why do many people lack to find what they love? Why do many people go towards their life in an auto-pilot mode? It is because they don’t know what they are passionate about. It is because they don’t try to find their real passion. It is because they don’t know the value of inner happiness.
Is it possible that passion be brought to life again in people? Yes. Passion is a feeling, a feeling to love, interest and stimulation you get when you do something. That is passion. Passion is the outcome of Open-mindedness. It is the outcome of Curiosity and Creativity.
Open-mindedness if you want to know what you are passionate about, then you have to be open-minded. Being open-minded is questioning your assumption and trying new things, experiences and hobbies. I always thought books were boring, then I questioned myself why do I think like that? then I started reading books, and it is a year now and I have read 20 books this year. Do I say I am passionate about reading books? yes, I love reading everything, I read novels, Newspapers and I really love to dive into the depth of words and feel it, imagine it. Therefore, you have to question your assumption and try to find what you love.
Curiosity if you want to know what you love, you have to dig deeper. You are following your passion, you are open-minded about something then you have to ask questions and dig deeper. You have to find or connect ideas; you have to solve problems by getting to know how other people solve theirs. You have to be curious about life. You should be always asking yourself, what is that I love? Why is that? Then dig deeper into it. I started writing my journal, year ago and I wrote it daily. I started this blog in August and I am even writing a novel that would be finished at the end of this month. I explored writing very much. I even explored blogging. Whatever you are doing nowadays, maybe learning or trying out a new hobby, ask many questions about it. Be curious about it, explore every aspect of it and then dig more and more deeper. It can make you excel and teach you a lot of things.
Also, be passionately curious, I mean not only ask questions but love to ask questions and find answer. You should love to explore and dig deep into topics until you are fully satisfied.
Creativity be creative, if you have an interest in something or cultivating a hobby then be creative about it, always try to find new ways to do things or create something. Connect two different ideas and try to represent your idea to a newer level. Whenever I sit down writing, I always try to write a little bit differently, every blog post of mine is different from other posts of mine. I always find new topics to write, so that I explore them and represent it in a new level. I always write my novel by exploring about what I am going to write about, and then I think through it and add more things. Follow an art, follow an idea or live some days by following an ideology, then try new things yourself.
Always try to ask yourself, does it make me happy? When it doesn’t then try something else then another and then another until you find something which gives you inner happiness and joy, and when you feel that inner happiness and joy while doing something, then yes, that is Passion I am writing about.
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Shaikh Ashraf.
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Dreams-Imagination
Dreams, we everyone have dreams and everyone loves their Dreams. Some dreams are shared with others, while some dreams are kept secret, but everyone of us have dreams, we dream of the choice of life we want, we dream about the type of partner we want, we just dream. Most people or the society criticizes the people who dream, telling that, “dreams never come true.” But the fact is they do come true.
Imagine that if Steve Jobs and Bill Gates did not had a dream of making personal computers then could we have computers, imagine that if Edison did not dream of electric bulb then could we have ever thought of LED lights or CFLs. Imagine. Dreams come from imagination, and imagination is more important than knowledge.
Looking at all these, I tell you that dreams do come true; they come true for those who have the will to chase their dreams and eager or enthusiasm to make their dreams come true. “So Chase every dream, make every dream come true, live the life of your choice and in your own way.”
Shaikh Ashraf.
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