Are you overcomplicating your own life?

Imagine your phone is running quite slow all of a sudden.

You open Instagram and it takes 5 seconds for it to open, 7 seconds for Whatsapp and god forbid 8-10 seconds for Gmail app to open.

What are your first thoughts as to why this might be happening?

Virus?

Hackers?

Webcam compromised, financial details leaked? What will you do now? Will they empty all your savings that you took 5 years to accumulate?

Well, More often than not all that is required is to free up some space. Delete a few Good Morning videos from Whatsapp data and lighten up your gallery a bit, restart and your phone is good to go.

Why is it that we overcomplicate our own lives?

There is a mental model to help you overcome that, Occam’s Razor.

It says usually the simplest solution to a problem is the best one and that’s where we should start.