I wonder what people really are thinking about when they "look for quality"? What actually attract to them, be it watching a sport, reading a book or appreciating a piece of art. I was talking about this to a friend recently. We agree that, what we considered as quality lies in the fact that, we "feel comfortable" about seeing what we see.This brings me to think of the next question, what is quality and how to define quality in a piece of work and the word "effortless" comes to the mind, and it seems to be associated with "simplicity" without being"simplistic". In my opinion, it is not easy to attain a level of simplicity in what you do, because this often means you have gained full understanding of the matter and that it has become clear to you, so it become easy for you to present them to your listeners, audience or readers. And therefore they "feel comfortable" about you because you appear to be "effortless".
I love watching South Korea's Kim Yu-Na earns figure skating in the recent Vancouver Winter Olympic 2010. Her skating is effortless. How to explain her effortlessness then? I think firstly, of course she mastered the skills and the techniques to skate and then she presented them with ease, even for some rather "highly complex moves", and she makes it look easy, and make the audience and viewers "feel comfortable", and she captures the hearts of many by her performance and indeed she had won a gold medal for her excellence.I don't think we should think too hard or too complex on the stuff we work on. Things only get complicated as it goes on and so should not be too complex to start. How it proceeds and end up being "effortless" is really for us to find out, but should really only happen after things we work on become "clearer" as we gain "better understandings".
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