Something I've noticed about people lately They try to make things as complicated as they can, and it's pretty annoying. For the sake of a better example, you have a bad headache, and you start trying to take all kinds of crap to fix it, when all you needed to do is just take an aspirin and chill for a bit. Here's the definition: Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar, William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae ("law of parsimony" or "law of succinctness"): "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", roughly translated as "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity". This is often paraphrased as "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities. It is in this sense that Occam's razor is usually understood. Bottom line, when somethings going on, or you need to make a decision, just make it as simple as you can, because something is as simple and as complicated as you make it. Also, one of the first things that they teach you in med school, but I find that it goes to all parts of life; Trust your first instinct, it's usually right, but people nowadays always dismiss it because they think it needs further analysis, but it usually doesn't, just listen to your first instinct, and make things simple. Feels good to rant.