Simplicity, an excuse to non achievement?

Firstly I need to acknowledge - this is not coming from my insight, but that of someone else. That should suffice to absolve me of my sins of plagiarism. So simplicity.. seen by most people a quality, a model way of behavior that some of the most selfless and pure amongst us have. But perhaps it is not all that good - for there are fakes amongst them as everywhere else. These counterfiet people obviously reduce the value of the other genuine ones. There are very few people who are genuinely simple with no other reason for being so, than their strong belief that it is the most sensible and honest way of being in existence. There are a lot of incentives towards appearing simple, you get a lot of leeway to excusing yourself and non-achievement and of course admiration/respect of a lot of people. People following the idea of - 'I can do this but I don't want to' are hard to differentiate from a person who actually cannot do anything. The reason being that this can be explicitly tested only in the time of a need and till then everyone looks the same (on the outside at least). So the need to differentiate the fakely simplistic people and the really simple minded people is important. One are the weakest members of our society and the other perhaps the most mature and sensible ones.

Also, perhaps we, as men, being so egoistic creatures, tend to give ourselves too much air. We make ourselves believe that we can do a lot, just that we are being modest/simple in not doing everything. Sub-consciously we tend to take our weakness to the other side and count them as a show of restraint. It always feels good to cross off a missing part in you. So there is a need to be self evaluating on a regular basis, so as to not give ourselves false airs and know ourselves and our true capabilities. This should in no ways diminish our self confidence, you rather reiterate it and instill a sense of conviction in it.

Not only that, there are many who are capable enough to do a lot but would rather choose to rest on this knowledge, and do nothing. For them their ego is a dreamy bed for them and their talents. They are so lazy that they are happy achieving nothing and choose to find excuses for this instead, simplicity is just one of them. If ever it is possible to make these people realize this and make them stand on their feet again, they could do a lot of good work in this world - just the motivation needs to be found for doing that.