There's a teaching behind the story of the hedgehog and the fox.
According to this school of thought, there are basically 2 types of people in the world - the hedgehogs and the foxes.
The foxes are very common in our world today. They pursue many ends and perceive the world/situation/problem as very complex. The way they think is very diffuse and complicating. But their thinking is never unified into 1 simple picture, idea, concept or vision. Basically, they believe and thrive in complexity.
Hedgehogs reduce everything to a very simple idea, concept or vision. They dislike complexity. Anything that cannot be reduced to their simplified idea/concept basically has no relevance to them. They're not stupid. They just concentrate on the essence of things.
Foxes may seem very smart, but at the end of the day, it's the hedgehogs who change the world. Some examples of hedgehogs: Freud and the unconscious, Darwin and natural selection, Marx and class struggle, Einstein and relativity, Adam Smith and division of labor. All their works revolve around a central idea or theme, and even till now, sciences are based on their central ideas. These hedgehogs manage to see through the layers of complexity and uncover the underlying patterns or principles. They see through all the peripheral, straight into the core and the essence.
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