What I’m aiming for, even in my own life, is not to stay mired in the gray areas of life, but to achieve the clarity that comes out the other side of complexity.

Like you said, to reduce the gray areas, not to ignore them (which should have been the main point of my article), and to sort grays into the blacks and whites.

Thanks for the insight.

I agree that life is sometimes more shades of gray and that the more gray matter you can handle the more capable you are at adapting to anything. I would say however, that people who are successful take a leap to tackle a solid outcome and in doing so advance their life. These are the people who try to reduce the gray areas in their life and are constantly moving gray to black and gray to white to concretely focus on creating positive results.

Einstein said; ‘make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.’

By that I think he meant that reduce everything done to its simplest elements without losing anything essential.

The more you’re able to manage complexity, the clearer you’ll be able to become about life. So paradoxically, the way to simplicity is not to remain simple (seeing things plainly in black and white), but to reach the simplicity that’s on the far side of complexity.

Okay, now even that sounds a bit too theoretical to me – does it make sense to you?

what happened to the simplicity of Zen?