I'm not great with details. In my studies, and in my life, I've tried to boil things down, simplify, reduce to first principles.
I find my head just can't hold all the details.
There is a satisfaction in paring things down, in smoothing away complexities.
Unfortunately, you do lose something in simplifying it. And many things in this messy, tangled world of our resist simplification.
I think I can learn to accept that some things are complex, and need to be appreciated in their complexity. But what I need to figure out is how to handle these things. While I simplify because I like dealing with simpler things, I also think I do this because I truly am not that good with the complex.
What's the answer to this? How do I go about training my mind to absorb, hold, and process the complicated issues in our complicated world?
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