Written Eugene Morgan
“And one usually starts with rather simple things. Because human beings are essentially, fundamentally, rather simple creatures.” Milton Erickson
Sometimes we make things so complicated, however, Erickson says because we’re simple creatures, we should make things simple. When learning something new, its seems complicated at first. However, it’s easier to grabs something new if we take it in a bit at a time. But using this approach can test our patience because it’s time consuming. So patience is just another thing to learn to do, if we want to make learning something simple.
We probably make things complicated because it’s an excuse to avoid learning something new—whether it’s about ourselves, or a situation. We know that learning something new adds knowledge. And knowledge is only power if it’s used and not avoided.
Another thing why we make things so complicated, it’s that we use the wrong frame of mind. Before we can get a new frame of mind, we need to begin learning something about it. As we learn something about it, we then begin to think about what we just learned. When we find the right frame of mind in the situation then we can see clearly how to go ahead with things.