How Do You Manage A Complexity?

by C. Henry Adams :


Below are excerpts from a recent Facebook Discussion:

How do you manage a complexity ( referring to anything in life that is humanly made complex)?

My Late Father (ML Adams) answered this question by stating the opposite.

He said, " You take a whole bunch of simple things, put them together to create a complexity ( complex thing / or situation)".

Thus, to manage a complexity, you break it down into simple things.  CH Adams

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Somebody said, "OK, Mr. Smartie Pants C. Henry Adams; give us an example of how and what your Dad said that actually applied in real life?"

My Reply: One of many Simple Examples and Lessons He ( My Late Father) taught was when I was a child... I was tasked or given the chore of raking the large backyard of leaves during the fall. I would guess the yard was nearly half an acre.

Utilizing his ( My Late Father) saying ( "You take a whole bunch of simple things, put them together to make a complexity") in reverse, I successfully rake the entire backyard in a timely manner, thus giving me time to go play with my friends.

He taught lessons in forward and reverse to say the least.  { No, to my knowledge - Dr. Howard Gardner and my late Father never met or knew each other.  LOL }

What this means is, if I was given a task to perform which appeared to be a problem to "Me".

He would in turn invoke me to " think (create a Plan of Action), know ( Try the plan, see what works and don't work) and then act ( Once you have sought out what worked, apply it the way you practice it or accordingly.)".

Regarding the leaves mentioned above, I figured if I raked leaves in small enough piles, then I could manage the collection; it would be easier for me to dispose of them quickly. The more piles of leaves disposed of... the less space of leaves covering the backyard. Once, I realized that I developed a technique, it was not hard to develop a system - an organized or established procedure from deductive reasoning.

Was a lesson taught or a series of lessons taught by my late Father? 

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