This video has some good points, but it is guilty of creating artificial complexity it aims to prevent for many of the viewers: Problem: You smoke and you want to stop Artifically complex solution: Quit smoking cold turkey and try super hard to not smoke despite the mental/phsyical addiction. Simple solution: Use nicotine patches to slowly stop smoking and start seeing a counselor to see if you have mental health issues that underly your reason for smoking. This video sort of presumes someone who's mentally healthy and neurotypical, but the people who seek out such a video are likley to be exactly the opposite. I like a lot of the strategies for figuring out you're in the situation of making a problem too hard for yourself, but typically there is some sort of self-protection going on preventing someone from acknowledging that truth. It's short-sighted and sometimes dangerous to assume that someone can just face that truth with more effort or positive thinking.
Excepcional Nat, éste es uno de los mejores videos que realmente te abren los ojos a la realidad: la mayoría de las cosas no son tan complejas como te han vendido que son y es tu responsabilidad ser consciente de ello. Gracias!!!
Thanks Nat for this one! I really liked the structure of the video in 2 parts with [a] the DifficultyxComplexity mental model then [b] the concept-solution of 1st principle thinking. My takeaways are: (1) "I value complexity"-realisation (this one hit hard!) | (2) Cognitive dissonance vs. Responsibility relationship | (3) Notice failure -based distorted perceptions. I would love to see more videos of the mental models and concepts you employ on a daily basis! Good luck :)
Thank you so much! I am a polymath and for the longest time I had been procrastinating to find the perfect balance and the best way to do things but turns out it was I going into frenzy because of information overload. You just made it click for me. Thank you!
Great video! I really appreciate it. I ran into it in my effort to learn more about the meaning of First principles thinking. I’m going to share this with my wife now. It really touches on some ideas we have been discussing lately.
Thanks Nat! This is very insightful, would look to revisit and gather more from this also on the side feel, our minds are occupied or stimulated with some visual content like movies or social media and there is not more space for critical thinking due to that
I was searching for this video for about 20 minutes. I was searching for "artificial complexity", but that term is not in your tags, or in your title, and only once in the description. It would help to people if you at least add some tags. BTW; AWESOMELY explained.
Man, you don´t have to put so many jokes and memes for trying to make yourself understood. You don´t need to distract us. Just talk, in a slow and articulated manner and explain your content. Just you. And everything will be fine.
Wall Street is notorious for this. You can create a simple, stable portfolio with low cost index funds and have it compound gradually over the years but that's not sexy compared to picking growth/value stocks, executing a butterfly option strategy, day trading, etc.
Great video, with some very helpful advice. The idea that cognitive dissonance can contribute to the perceived complexity of a task is a fantastic insight. I would however be careful to recognise that some things that are not strictly speaking complicated (I'm thinking about giving up smoking here) are still not easy - simply because they're difficult to do. Giving up a highly addictive drug is very hard, especially when faced with life's other challenges. In such cases, funnily enough, "complicating" the process (thus involving some form of pattern or ritual and requiring commitment to an anticipated uphill struggle) can be a legitimate part of the solution.
"cutting out sugar" is a fad that makes things complicated. Populations with the greatest longevity are high carb. For example: "A high-carb diet may explain why Okinawans live so long"
