that's just the way it is.

In Korean Daoism, we call it the law of Yin and Yang (Chinese pronunciation) or Um and Yung (Korean). The moment you define something, you've instantly given birth to it's opposite. You can call it relative scale or the theory of relativity as did Einstein. Either way, the most complex problems have the simplest solutions.

You could have a Madoff scale PR issue, a dire health issue, an insufferable relationship issue, regardless - The biggest issues have the simplest solutions. It's the small problems that require big solutions.

Think about it. Traffic. Traffic is a tiny problem. There's just too many people in the same place. Simple. But your politicians create solutions that include civil engineers, statisticians, geologists, futurists, physicists, environmentalists etc... and decide the smartest thing to do is to add more lanes.

They do.

People find out.

Instead of carpooling, they each take their own cars. Instead of offering shuttle service to and from the local train-station, companies hire commuters from farther away. Instead of moving closer to work, commuters move to Orange County, California.

Think about it. Laundry. It's a small problem. But laundry was hailed as a chief culprit in keeping our 1950's mothers and grandmothers from joining the workforce. The two world wars proved that women were needed in industry and business. So to free up valuable time, the Maytag Company introduced a new state of the art, roller free, water injection washing machine in 1953. It was to liberate women.

It didn't.

The standard of cleanliness just went up.

Instead of doing laundry once a week or only when it was necessary, women today spend three times as much time caring for laundry, picking detergents, picking dryer fabric softener sheets, picking spot removers, separating colored loads from whites from cool water from hot water from cottons from permanent press from linens from lingerie from $300-blue-jeans from dry clean onlies.

I'd go on. But if you have a complex dilemma, problem, or quandary, you don't want to hear about how society makes complex problems worse. I am guessing that you would rather know how to solve your own complex problems simply. This is when you click to find my new book: The Ancient Master of the Obvious - An Alchemist's Book of Secrets

or hire me and my team.

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