Addition by Subtraction

Most precious things gets added in life by subtracting the unwanted things. Imagine you hold a beautiful garden and you made up the habit of watering the plants everyday. You feel very pleasant and happy seeing the plants grow. Imagine the garden hose bend in the middle. Some water can flow through but not much. If you want to increase the rate at which the water passes through the hose, there are 2 options. The first option is the crank up the value and force more water through the hose. The second option is to simply remove the bend in the hose and the water flow through naturally

We motivate ourself many times to do things. This is like cranking up the valve and forcing ourself to do things. This will sometimes increase the tension and adds friction to life. Meanwhile, building up small positive habits or removing / subtracting the unwanted daily behaviors is like removing the bend in the hose. By subtracting these unwanted things, we can add many precious things in long term

Japanese build the most effective way of work by changing their workspace. They made all the tools required by the employees easily accessible during work. This way, they subtracted the unnecessary movements or thoughts to add more productivity. It was said in a survey that Japanese products resulted in 5 times less service call than American products

When the first voice activated speakers were released, products like Google Home, Amazon Echo and Apple HomePod. People thought it is the easiest way to play music without using their hands to select and play music. Few years back it was easier to have the music stored in mobile phone and play it when needed instead of going to shop and buy CDs. So, the companies decided to subtract the physical  interaction with devices (which they thought unnecessary), this eventually added the revenue of the companies

In financial world, wealth can be added by subtracting the unwanted trades. Many traders think they need to buy or sell positions daily or weekly to make money in stock market. The more subtraction made to the number of unwanted trades, higher the wealth generated. If a trader keep on changing the position, higher the possibility of losing the trade. It is advisable for traders to wait atleast for a month to get the profits. Financial markets will give good result for a stock market trader who think he is working for an company and he gets payment / salary only by end of the month. Higher wealth generation is achievable by delayed gratification and on long term investment in a quality company.

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B G Nareshkumar