distillation - by Isabel - Mind Mine
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on getting to the essence
Impression, soleil levant, Monet, 1872 “Brevity is the soul of wit.” — William Shakespeare, from Hamlet I vividly remember the moment my professor said this in class. It was immediately etched into my mind. I liked both how brief it was(!), as well as the point it made: that the more we distill > the more potent our words become > the easier an idea is to digest > the higher its resonance. We revere brevity—poetry, song lyrics, anything that distills complex ideas into simple, concise words is a wonder to us. This might also be why quotes are so enjoyable to consume: they distill big…
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