Simplicity
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Hello, and welcome to a new episode of Bite-Sized Philosophy. It has been a long time. Welcome back to the show. I’m excited to jump back into this and I’m excited to be recording again. It’s been a long time. Today, we’re going to cover a quote from the famous Albert Einstein.
“If you can’t explain it simply, then you don’t understand it well enough” — Albert Einstein
This is a cool quote for me because recently I’ve been thinking a lot about simplicity. It’s easy to make things more complicated. Anyone can complicate things, but it really takes someone to really know the topic well and to really be good at the topic to be able to simplify it.
I think some of the best teachers that I’ve ever had were able to take a complex topic and really narrow it down into something that was very simple and digestible and easy. And it made sense.
Sometimes the application of that concept was very complicated and sometimes the application of that concept was very challenging, and often it is. But the idea itself, the concept itself was explained simply because my…
