1. The Pursuit of Elegance
Matthew E. May says: “All the Best Ideas Have Something Missing".
I've read many of the blogs posted in our CTO 2011 spring and many of them somehow have found their missing part and suggesting/ creating/ proposing or self implementing their best ideas.So I began to wonder if I had any similar story. I think something was missing to me!
Then remind me of those days in Albania (my childhood) when we were always trying to improvise our toys (and I think everybody of us remembers)…
I mean every time there was some spare part missing impossible to find and this make us not searching anymore for it but inventing something new. So, from a missing spare part a new idea was generated into us and at those time those simple toys were perfection for our eyes
I don't know if my example meets the author requirements for elegance, but I think it does.
Br,
Idi SULO
Actually I am not agree with sulo by not 100 percent because complete ideas get perfect results.If there is something missing you cant know what will happen at the end.That's why we are having many courses to learn different point of views to have a complete ideas or to make our ideas close to completeness.
YanıtlaSilDear Idi,
YanıtlaSilI liked your post, it reminded me the difficult days of our childhood… These improvised toys or even games made our imagination more developed and we were more creative. We always tried to do our best with what we found around… I don’t know how much of perfection we reached but we tried to be elegant in our way and it made us happy…:)
BR,
Erisa
Hi Idi,
YanıtlaSilThank you for reminding our childhood! I remember that the favorite toys for us in USSR were not the real toys but the things made of usual stuffs you may find in every home; we were making them by ourselves and they were the most valuable things for us. We didnt have too many options to play with, everybody had the same plastic ugly doll so it pushed us to the creation of our own ones, how we wished it to be, without any limititaions. Only the one limit we could have - it was our own imagination.
Or how elegant might a collection of empty tins? It was very significant for me ;-)
Sincerely,
Tatiana
somehow the missing part has generated into us a lot of forgotten parts, which were the elegance of our life in those years.
YanıtlaSilidi
Idi good example very understandable for all of us Albanians that have lived those years..
YanıtlaSilWe anyway really enjoyed that deficiency and than things were more beautiful as we would try to accomplish something.
LIfe is a journey and the way you chose to solve or create your problem tells a lot about you....
Flo