<aside> <img src="/icons/sword_red.svg" alt="/icons/sword_red.svg" width="40px" /> Welcome to Wielding Occam’s Razor.
****In this video, we’ll be discussing the importance of simplicity & essentialism. Our general inclination as humans is to solve problems with addition; by adding continuously more elements to the system or solution. In this video, however, you’ll see why deletion is almost always better than addition and why you should focus more time on removing things from your business.
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What Is Occam’s Razor? 🪒🧖♂️
Occam’s Razor (also known as the “Law of Parsimony”) is a philosophical principle and problem-solving tool. In philosophy, a razor is a tool that’s used to “shave off” improbable solutions for a given problem. Occam’s Razor ****is the most famous, and goes like this:
Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.
Put simply, Occam’s Razor is the idea that you should always prefer a simple explanation to a complex one. Keep in mind, this is a heuristic. This means it’s not always accurate, but it’s true enough of the time to make it a useful mental shortcut.
There is a famous quote from Einstein that’s been paraphrased into this: “everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
<aside> <img src="/icons/sword_red.svg" alt="/icons/sword_red.svg" width="40px" /> In the context of growing a consulting business, this means that your business structure and systems should be as simple as possible to achieve your goal, but no simpler.
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Simple systems are: