A Citizen in a Forest…
Argument from Design
The first effective rule of sales that I learned as a part-timer is:
Sell what you love
Of course, this rule necessitates knowing what to love. Then, knowing why you love it. But, not necessarily in this order.
My Kryptonite at the time was the Citizen wristwatches Eco-Drive collection.
Features & Translations:
- Eco-Drive — think sustainability.
- Mother of Pearl face/dial — functional jewelry.
- Tachymeter — for the Mathematical speedster or diver?
- Sapphire Crystal glass — think tough or scratch-resistant.
Roughly…🤔
With this in mind, you can imagine my excitement over 19th Century’s William Paley’s thoughts about a rock and a watch.
My Remix:
“Suppose you went hiking through a forest and first came across a moss-covered rock. Would you notice it enough to ask yourself, how did it come to be here? Or ask, why is it moss-covered?
Then, after walking further forward you came across a leather-strapped, Citizen Eco-Drive wristwatch…with a Tachymeter. Would you notice it enough to ask, how did it come to be here? Or, why does it have a Tachymeter?”
Verbatim:
“. . . when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive. . . that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose, e.g. that they are so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day; that if the different parts had been differently shaped from what they are, or placed after any other manner or in any other order than that in which they are placed, either no motion at all would have been carried on in the machine, or none which would have answered the use that is now served by it. . . . the inference we think is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker — that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer, who comprehended its construction and designed its use.”
It’s amazing what the human mind can conceive and perceive.
Beyond the existential questions around his thoughts, William Paley was an amazing thinker.
