Low Fidelity Advantage

Welcome everybody to another episode of Halftime Talks. My name is Rahim Rasul, and you’re listening to the podcast where we understand that in the middle of our game of life, whether you’re up by 10 or down by 20, we all need halftime talks to uplift us, inspire us and challenge us to bring that level of performance you and I both know it’s gonna take to win the game. It’s been a long time since I left you without a dope beat step two. So welcome back. Glad you’re here, and I like to set the tone, and we do that each week with a little bit of appreciation.

And this week, I want to appreciate the soundtracks that I’ve had to my life, there’s nothing more sublime than finding that song that that is paired to an amazing experience, and listening to that song and allowing it to become a time machine that transports your emotions, your thoughts and ideas into a space of just Rapture. Be that your coming of age music, be it that music you were listening to when you fell in love, music has this beautiful characteristics that allow our minds to find and mold itself around pleasurable energies. So I want to thank and appreciate the music that molds our energy.

This week. I hope you found us in a very delightful place, in a place that is lighthearted enough to hear that next logical step here at halftime talks. We love perspective. We love connecting the dots, where we’re not necessarily here preaching or soapboxing. We are hoping that some of the words and perspectives that we offer finds you where you are in the middle of your journey and can propel or give you a vantage point to engage differently. So we’re glad you’re here. We’re glad you’ve come back, and if you’re new, we’re glad you found us. And in this week’s episode, one, one thing that the thing that we’re going to talk about is the idea of low fidelity, and how that can apply to not just the dreams you want to accomplish, but overall and generally into your life.

I think you’re worth it. I think your projects are worth it. I think having another little tool in our tool kit is well worth it. And so sit back, relax and enjoy as we talk a little bit about low fidelity.

I know you’re saying, like, what does low fidelity have to do with anything? But there’s an artist within me that was introduced to the idea of low fidelity years ago. So to first define low fidelity, that is a sketch. That’s a sketch as compared to a fully high resolution work of art. The beauty about the sketches is that, typically, we are working towards something, and each of us, you, me, anybody listening, is going through something that they are working on, and the precision required for high fidelity, high resolution output takes a lot of computational power, not just on our computers, but on our minds as well.

So many factors have to be considered. You have to do it right, because you fear that one stray stroke of the line or one straight inadvertent mistake could compromise the composition, but low fidelity sketching allows us to solve allows us. To work through the challenges and the constraints, not only of the medium, but also of our ability to flow that skilled hand musicians use low fidelity by sometimes humming a tune before playing it, or scanning a rhythm of of how the words should fall in place before putting the exact words in that structure. So there is an integrity to low fidelity, where you are spatially solving things, not just artistically, but this could also be your life, where, before you take the great effort required for high fidelity, you sketch.

And the beauty about sketching is that I could compose, draw, paint, write, the most detailed piece that began as a sketch, a page full of sketches that my one inch drawing I envisioned as a fully elaborate mural, and by making it one, I can redraw it again and again and work through the spatial relationships or the the texture or the tone. I could work through color choices. I could work through line stroke widths and in all these little things before I have to concern myself with the output. Now, for this to be brought home. A lot of people want to finish begin with the end in mind.

They want to get started and just knock things out. They want to write the final draft before they’ve written the first draft. They want to get to the point where they get so synced up and inspired, where they put the pressure on themselves to make it right out of the box. I don’t think that’s fair to who, whatever, whoever you’re delivering thanks to, and I also don’t think it’s fair to yourself to pass the stage of low fidelity before you solve the inherent challenges that are to come. If you take a computer, for example, if you try to begin working in high fidelity, it crashes your CPU.

There’s not enough RAM or memory to go that high detailed too soon. So before you do that, it would be prudent for you to even consider working in low fidelity, because it also has its advantages. You know, you don’t have to buy all the resources, you don’t have to worry about the mistakes. You don’t have to do. You don’t have to carry the burden of performing for the final result until it’s time. And so you can solve so many things in advance if you just committed to incorporating a stage of low fidelity, not only into your work, but also into your life, because given a little extra time, that’s when we put our polish on it.

That’s when we put that extra coat of varnish where we see now between the lines and say, Let’s lift that up. Over here. Let’s highlight this. Let’s position these things next to each other, and that production, that producing, that choreographing, what was once thought to be complete and now allowed to become exceptional, is a value that comes along with working through the challenges as they arise without the burden of final delivery before it’s ready. That’s what separates the good from the exceptional. That’s what separates the Kobe’s and the the Kobe Bryant’s, let me be specific, and the other individuals who have the same body makeup.

Body Composition play the same position that he played, who will never know it’s that we’ve solved the domains challenges before we had the pressure of delivering a performance while we were not yet ready. So some ideas to consider, how many things and how many ways can we apply this? It could be cooking. It could be our goals. It could be eating around the edges of little things. It could be experimenting that we can try. It could be soliciting feedback along the way. It could be just working some ideas out in your sketchbook, whatever sketchbook it might be before the pressure of the big stage is there.

My name is Rahim Russell, and thank you for listening to another episode of halftime talks. If you’ve enjoyed this, then make your way to iTunes, subscribe, rate and review. If you’ve enjoyed this, do us a favor and share with a friend. The more who know, the more we grow. And if you’ve enjoyed this, make your way back here next week, because we’re gonna have another cool episode offering perspectives, you know, nothing radically life changing, because sometimes it’s the little ideas that add up to a seismic shift in how we approach our day to day living. My name is Rahim Russell once again. Thank you. It’s been a pleasure and a joy to share these ideas, and I look forward to our next time together. Peace. You.