” This, ” my wife (holding the bar of soap) told me after I took my bath, “is not for washing the body. It is for washing the hair.”

“‘that’s cool. ” I reacted. And immediately the businessman in me started thinking…

Why is shampoo almost always in liquid form? Is it because it has always been that way? Isn’t it much more advantageous and easier to use and even carry if it is in solid form?

But then I remembered something also that Albert Einstein said, ” Using two kinds of soap to wash the body just complicates my life too much!”

This quote from the great thinker who have grappled with the most complex things in the universe, and in a way he has a point. He is great not because he was a genius, but because he knew where to focus his genius – in things that would make a difference.

We strive too much to complicate our lives. Ditto with computers. But I am willing to bet that the most progress ( and the most money) in technology will be made when it makes our lives simpler ( and will just work in the background without us knowing it).

But then technology can still do only so much. It will not make our lives simpler if we ourselves choose to complicate it. Don’t you agree?

At the risk of sounding unsophisticated, I now happily put this bar into my travel bag. I now have one less thing to carry. It is great for washing the hair AND the body. In some ways, I will strive also to grapple with some complexities in technology, business and life, and hopefully you will read it here in simple prose — after all , in the quest for happiness, isn’t it plain that we need to uncomplicate our lives?