A few days ago I had been thinking on a complex problem, and it struck me that the easiest way to solve any problem is to first organize it.
It's not really that profound of a thought; really it just comes from my background as a trends consultant, since trends consulting is basically just a process of organizing information. It was back then that I started to realize that in many ways my primary talent in life, in many various facets, is simply: organization.
But the thought struck me deeply because I realized this has been my approach for as long as I could remember.
I instantly flashed back to being young - elementary school - finding it odd that people thought I was smart at least because I was so good at math. (Arithmetic didn't seem like something that should be hard, so it struck me as odd that people would use it to judge how smart I was.) In a way that I can only say in retrospect, arithmetic was supremely natural to me, because numbers are so easy to organize. One popular commenter on the video above feels like something I may have even tried to tell a classmate once upon a time: "You just shuffle numbers to make easiest, fastest way to process."
That strange feeling just kind of went away to the background of subconsciousness for a long long time.
And then I saw the above video.
It really hammers in the point that the "organization" philosophy is simply this:
To reality and the universe, information is the same no matter how it's presented - so organization can indeed seem superfluous. But presenting it in certain ways can make information mean different things to *humans*, and that is all the difference.
