Prospering in Elegance

Usually a client, after paying for his pendant, will undergo some discomfort in his life.  Sometimes, the discomfort grows.  Sometimes, it goes away.  What we take back from this experience are training.  Training for something bigger than ourselves.  Bigger than what we are consciously aware of ourselves.

 

Ever wonder why people that are consistently wealthy stayed at the top year after year?  They have developed the capacity to command such an income and retain it as wealth.  To increase your capacity, it could take many decades.  I have seen clients that are earning millions a year and asked myself what did they do to get where they are.  What I can see is that their current output is worth a lot, given that everyone is on the same unit of time.

 

The 2nd question that I asked is: how did they create such high-value output?  I figured out that they have accumulated tremendous capacity to produce such output over a period of time.  Time measured by the same clock that ticks for everyone.  An example would be a neuro-surgeon, or CEO of a thriving storage company.  They have climbed to that position through extraordinary efforts placed into the same area of focus decades after decades.

 

But, I took notice of something else.  I saw the evidence of age and/or certain character traits that can be improved in them.  They have gained prosperity but may have neglected elegance.

 

In the Arts, Elegance is dignified and poise behavior or appearance.  In the Science/Maths, Elegance also meant for unusually simple yet highly effective design or process/formula.  Let’s compare an automatic wristwatch with a grandfather clock.

 

 

Dainty minute & hour hands paired with well-spaced Roman numberings all contained in a circle no bigger than your wrist.

  

Large mechanical metal parts contained in a tall wood casing



You can see the difference in Elegance from the Art perspective where the hands are sweeping smoothly on an automatic watch face compared with the sudden jerk forward of the minute hand on a grandfather clock with a loud thud.  The automatic watch face, too, has to be designed to functionally tell the time and look pleasing even after viewing it a thousand times.  If you have an inch of dislike, you will not stand to read time from your wrist.

 

And from the Science/Maths perspective where the Elegance in design of the wristwatch’s movements says plentiful compared to the movement design of the grandfather clock.  An automatic watch is able to tell the time while having its movements (its engine that drives the hands) compacted into a small space and light enough to be worn on the wrist. 

 

Every micrometer of space must be thought through many thousands of times and must be compared with the overall watch design/purpose.  While you cannot possibly wear a grandfather clock on your wrist to tell the time.  Its movements are much larger, clunkier and in some ways simpler compared to the wristwatch’s.



Rigorous design culminates into Elegance



The same for Lotus exquisite jadeite collection.  Only 1 unique piece in the world.  Rigorously designed for maximum efficacy.

 In the end, everyone will more or less own an elegantly -looking and -design wristwatch but not all will own a grandfather clock, not to mention wear one.  Elegance played a great part in your Lotus treasures, from the design, materials, personalized advice to your very own attitude after wearing it.

 

I asked myself if I could achieve the same level of prosperity with elegance.  Quicker and better, highly efficient and effective.  But instead of trudging through harsh weather conditions, I chose to proper elegantly with my Lotus treasures, and my trusty wristwatch.

-- Leonard