Maeda

Time- As many others comment on how time runs are life, it is true! Without time you don't know where to be, when to say something, where to go, or even when to start or end your day. As I read this book it hit me in a lot of spots that lately I have troubles with. Time is one of them! "If I only had more time, or if I only knew something at that time," I always seem to say to myself. If everyone had time down it would make life more simple and things may be reduced. Stress, failure, limits, and more all come with time! But would we all want to have life that easy? Or is it just such a mystery we tend to try and always figure it out? Maeda talks about survival, and how individuals and businesses play the same time line in different meanings. "As the individual level, we're also in the business of survival but we also have certain freedoms that allow us to play a different time," (Maeda 25).

Differences- "Simplicity and complexity need each other," (Maeda 45). Along with time, differences are needed in life to help us live a life of surprises and challenges. If we didnt have 50 different tvs to chose from, why would we ever leave our house to watch a movie in the theater? Or if we all wore the same clothes, where does culture stand? Maeda talks about colors and how there are choices that help make things that are simple stand out and other complex things be easy to focus on. I like the idea of having choices in life. If we didnt have a good and bad side to everything, how do we really know how good we have it?

I can apply these laws in my everyday life. I can use these ten laws ; reduce, organize, time, learn, differences, context, emotion, trust, failure, and the one, to give me advantages to every angle of something thats put infront of me.

Kelsey Krueger