Picasso's Hill
As you improve at something, you journey along a curve. You’ve probably seen the memes. I’m sure it’s got some fancy name like "The Complexity Curve of Mastery."
But it looks like a hill. So I’m calling it Picasso’s Hill
Why?
Because dude can draw and paint his ass off. But he got to his signature style by returning to simplicity. Check out Picasso’s Bulls if you want to see this in action.
So about that hill…
When you first start, you’re on the simple end of the curve.
As you progress you climb the curve to complexity.
Then you hit a point in your progress where you head back down the hill to simplicity.
But this doesn’t mean you’re back where you started. You hiked over a hill.
As James Clear puts it:
The amateur does not know what to do.
The master knows what not to do.
So keep it simple, stupid
JK, you’re not stupid 💜