What is prodigious noticing? Some call it selective sight. Some call it not seeing the trees through the forest. Yes, I know I said it backwards. It is the ability to step back, remove oneself from all the distractions of life. It's the ability to remove all complexities to a problem and to look at it through the eyes of a child.
We as humans believe we are a very complicated species. Therefore we sometimes tackle problems with complexity, when its inverse would be much simpler. Let's use an equation to demonstrate my point.
5 + 5 + 5 = 550
Look at this equation closely. Study it. It clearly does not make mathematical sense. Now for the next minute, I want you to add a single straight line to this mathematical equation, without messing with the equal sign to make this equation mathematically correct.
Take a minute and really try to solve it.
What most of you will find is that it is really a difficult task. Some will try to move the numbers around. Some might try to get out a calculator. When in fact, if you read my instructions, I gave out very simple, clear directions. Again, we tend to over complicate the problem to fit some deep need.
The old saying of KISS (Keep it Simple Silly) is very valid for most of our problems. But more importantly many of the solutions we are looking for are at our fingertips, but we are so focused on our personal challenges and our own lives that we have a hard time seeing them. Then when a friend comes along and tells us what we need to hear, we don't listen because they just don't understand all of the complexities.
We have the eyes to see and they are clouded. We have the ears to listen and they let us down. So what do we do? I suggest we submit our lives and we become the great people we were destined to be.
Without judgement: we listen, we watch, we learn, we do, we repeat.
Have a great day!
Rick
PS. The single straight line is added to one of the plus signs to make it a four.
5 4 5 + 5 = 550
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