You never really truly understand something until you can explain it to your grandmother.   Attributed to Albert Einstein Ha, I love this quote.  I love it because it is so true.  We over complicate things and then when we are forced to explain them to someone who doesn't have a lot of exposure to the thing we are forced ourselves to slow down, listen to what we are saying, and more often than not I find I gain a clearer way of doing or looking at the thing.  Sometimes even a better way of doing a task emerges from me trying to explain it to someone else.   I've had to explain several things to my grandparents (taking today's quote literally) and can you imagine how silly and even stupid Facebook (for example) sounds when trying to explain it to them? :) It's hysterical to me.  They just seem confused.  And they are right to be confused.  In the example of Facebook - since when is virtual connection better and more fulfilling than face to f...

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.   Albert Einstein This one makes me really think.  I eventually get to the simple explanation but not without first taking the long route.  :)  I'm far too wordy and complicated for my own good...or for anyone else's!  Because I'm a verbal processor I oftentimes find myself explaining something and it starts out complicated and by the time the person has asked questions and I have exhausted the phrase "long-winded" the most simple way to do it suddenly appears.  So does this mean that I lack understanding about the thing/process/etc?  Or does it mean I just don't have the verbal wherewithal to explain it in its "boiled down" form?  I know what I mean and what I'm trying to say but verbally I can't get it across very well.  So I don't know about this one - certainly that is true for some things but I don't know if it is true for all things.  It's why I l...

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.   Albert Einstein Einstein is on to something here.  :)  It's so interesting to me that when I'm in the midst of trying to solve a  problem  that has been created by me,  usually , that I do try to solve it by going backwards in my  thought  processes.  Meaning I take the same exact  thought  process and try to reverse it in hopes that the problem will unwind itself and be fixed.  I do this without really knowing I am.  I think most of us must since Einstein addressed it!  But if there's a problem the best course of action, for me and maybe for you to, is to stop - slow down - think clearly - and solve it with a new thought process, not the same tired one that created the problem in the first place!  Today's quote really mirrors one from a few days ago in which I also gave a loose  definition  of insanity.  It's the...