Do Not Overcomplicate
Perhaps you have heard of General George Custer, he of the famous Little Big Horn battle. Earlier in his career as a staff officer for Major General George B. McClellan, Custer was promoted to the rank of Captain during the Army of the Potomac’s 1862 Peninsula Campaign. During the pursuit of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston up the Peninsula, on May 24, 1862 when Gen. Barnard and his staff were reconnoitering a potential crossing point on the Chickahominy River, they stopped and Custer overheard his commanders discussing how deep they thought the river was. This went on for some time. The general then muttered to himself, “I wish I knew how deep it is.” Custer dashed forward on his horse out to the middle of the river and turned to the astonished officers of the staff and shouted triumphantly, “That’s how deep it is, General!” In the complicated, there is the simple, and in the simple there is the complicated. The Tao is so simple, most cannot understand it.
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