What is it?

The term Simplicity refers to the child’s need for a simple, safe and unambiguous world. It is the level at which we satisfy our basic needs such as for warmth, nutrition, safety, acceptance, movement space, attention, etc. Even in adult life, this longing for simplicity, comprehensibility and satisfaction of basic needs has to be met. As we grow older, we will have to lovingly ‘adopt’ this part ourselves so that it does not become an unconscious driver of our behaviour.
The young child in us is also, in a way, our purest, perhaps most genius part. It demands healthy food, room to move, creative space and being allowed to be in the now. So self-adoption and self-compassion in adult life can bring a lot of joy in life.

In Bitcoin-Leadership this is the level of basic needs. At this level we are functioning on the high time preference of instant gratification. In regard to our basic needs, this can be normal. But in regard to the Bitcoin community, this is a level that we need to include and transcend. It implies that we need to be able to function on different levels of time preference simultaneously. It can also mean that we train to postpone gratification, like in fasting or controlling our emotional expressions.