"If you can’t explain it simply,
You don’t understand it well enough." 
- Albert Einstein

Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. (Leonardo Da Vinci) 

ThinKing

I must confess that I have difficulties in communicating my thoughts to a woman. In a conversation, I still struggle on knowing when and whether I should use the word "cost-effective" or "cheap," with a success rate of a meagre 40%. I always mean "cost-effective," but mistakenly say "cheap" not only because it saves on letters and is more concise but also because it's in accordance with the KISS (Keep it short and simple) principle (... 5-4-3-2-1 ... Hey, please stop thinking, I need your attention here.) in design engineering. I sometimes have to think like a woman only so that I am understood by a woman.

I must admit that thinking like a woman is difficult and exhausting.
Women are graceful, gentle, caring, loving, concerned, particular, patient, kind, and thoughtful.

I thought of thinking like a woman for a day. I fell ill the very next day. Experiments in Claylanguage do come at a price. I thought I should share...

Aim: To think like a woman in order to be understood by women.
Procedure: Think (like a woman).
Ethical considerations: None needed; none obtained. 
Result: Fell ill on post-thought day 1.
Conclusion: Further thinking is required to think whether to resume or stop thinking like a woman.

It's easy to know the sex of an author by his or her works.
However, you need to be man enough and ready to think like a WOMAN! 

Mold the Earth

The time for making new resolutions has dawned. These last few days in December are filled with moments of introspection and hours of reflection.

Living at the rate of 60 seconds per minute and making these seconds count in adding greater value to life are a couple of small resolutions. Pondering on speeches that enabled change and contemplating on movements that changed world history are two methods to simplify the process of making big resolutions; however, both methods do not enable the keeping of the big resolutions that they had initially inspired. Improvement begins with determination and is maintained by the constant resolve to be better than the person one was the previous day.

The abstractness involved in the aim to change the world confounds me. In order to guide and influence growth and development by giving change a definite form, I would consider a phrase “to mold the earth” as a resolution for 2011. Molding the earth is similar to playing in the sand and building sand castles; the simplicity of the phrase would make it a resolution difficult to break.
Happy New Year 2011!