![]() Occam's Razor, in philosophy and as defined in Wikipedia, "is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. The best strategies even look like they should have been obvious from the beginning, except it wasn't or couldn't be seen back then. It has also likely taken me a long while to gather enough information and pursue long-winded ideas to finally get to that simplest result. Ideally, any given strategy ends up seemingly simple. ![]() Which I suppose is also what I do with work and clients. I can't help researching, strategising, and optimising plans. There's also the satisfaction I get from organising a trip independently, looking for the best permutations of trains, planes, and automobiles, so to speak. Part of this is certainly down to budgeting priorities. I think I do well financially, even better than many, but I don't come from a wealthy family.Īfter describing the hostel dorm rooms and friends' places where I tend to hang out when skiing, one of the ex-colleagues had an aha moment and realised it wasn't so much that I was rich, but rather that I didn't have the same travel comfort requirements they had when traveling. I realise skiing is an expensive sport, generally reserved for wealthy people, and/or people living right by the mountains. It's actually the first time in my life I am so invested in a physical activity, to be honest. I ended up re-learning many years later, on a holiday with one of my best friends in 2016. It kind of stayed on my radar far in the background, as a nice to do again some day. My parents didn't ski, we didn't really have enough money or interest to go on ski holidays in my teenage years. I loved it but that was the only time I skied. I first learned to ski when I was about 9 years old in France, during "classe de neige" school trip. Ockham’s razor is the idea that philosophical arguments should be kept as simple as possible, something that Ockham himself practised severely on the theories of his predecessors.I'm going skiing soon, and as I was planning the trip I noticed similarities with the ways I approach a strategy work project.Ī few years ago, after I finished worked at Energy BBDO in Chicago, I caught up with a couple of ex-colleagues for a drink and found out there were rumours about me in the office: people thought I was super wealthy because I went away on ski trips. He also declared that the authority of rulers derives from the people they govern and was one of the first people so to do. During a turbulent career he managed to offend the Chancellor of Oxford University, disagree with his own ecclesiastical order and get excommunicated by the Pope. His name was William and he became known as William of Ockham.William of Ockham’s ideas on human freedom and the nature of reality influenced Thomas Hobbes and helped fuel the Reformation. This means they would have been standing when the village witnessed the birth of one of the greatest philosophers in Medieval Europe. ![]() Made of grey stone, it has a pitched roof and an unassuming church tower but parts of it date back to the 13th century. In the small village of Ockham, near Woking in Surrey, stands a church. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophical ideas of William Ockham including Ockham's Razor.
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