Turning everything up to the max will give you a big bang, but not necessarily the one you are looking for.
Every piece of quality equipment is designed to work at its best when turned up to around a third of its capacity, with the next third being kept in reserve should it be needed now and again, and the final third generally being a no-go zone, like redlining and overclocking. Go too far for too long and the equipment gets damaged, meaning you have to start all over again. This is not the kind of big bang we’re looking for here.
In the sidebar of this website is Doc Brown in his alter-ego as Reverend Jim in the classic comedy series Taxi, where we see a message to “slow down”. Similar messages can be found in other productions, like Pixar’s Cars, which teaches a need to slow down to first focus on skill and accuracy, and once this is learnt we can then deal with true speed. In Cars, Doc Hudson explained to Lightning McQueen that when travelling at speed in natural conditions the most effective way to go left is to turn right.
In a similar way here, what we are looking to do is to slow down to go fast. The same theme is seen in Kung Fu Panda, and Grand Master Oogway’s natural alignment with the “infinite moment”, as well as Po’s “discovery” of the Wuxi finger hold. In other words, optimal output from optimal input, with the output being “greater” than the input. That is, developing the skill to making the whole “greater” than the sum of its parts, with no “loss” of any kind being experienced, indeed quite the opposite. In other words, understanding what it truly means to be naturally interdependent, within and without.
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