The key to getting the most done to the highest level and impressing the most people is actually through aiming for less than perfect. Here’s how to adopt this more effective way of tackling your key projects.Understand that you can’t do everything all at once and that it’s good to plan so you can pace yourself. But if you struggle with perfectionism, then planning to do something “later” can easily slide into procrastination, because you aren’t willing to start until you reach some optimal state of professional nirvana that never comes.

Aiming For Perfection Backfires

At the very least, sit down and brainstorm what steps you’ll need to do to get the project done.You may prefer to record the steps digitally. Either way, you want to start to flesh out what it will take to get things done and start the process of gaining momentum.

Start Today

If you <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90628373/why-tackling-perfectionism-must-go-beyond-letting-things-go">struggle with perfectionist tendencies</a>, once you get started on a project, you’ll need to have a plan for how to stop yourself from investing too much time in individual parts of the work.As you focus on the production, get the work to an acceptable level in each area with the understanding that you can come back and refine it if you have more time before the deadline. This leads to an overall better outcome than fixating on making a particular part of a project perfect and then having to rush through the rest.

Catch The Perfectionist Habits Early

The key to success is to give yourself a time limit, do the work, and then move on to the next part. This doesn’t mean everything will always go accordingly to schedule—there may be times when you need to spend an extra 30 to 45 minutes to get something done. But if you’re going hours and hours beyond what you had determined was the appropriate amount of time, then you likely need to stop yourself and move on.

Give Yourself The Time Limit

Once you get into producing work, you may find yourself getting stressed and overthinking things because you’re wondering how others will respond to what you present. This can lead to analysis paralysis, where you invest much more time in thinking than doing.To avoid this trap of perfectionism, integrate constructive feedback on how you could improve, but then try to block out thoughts of the future about how people will or won’t respond. Vague concern about whether people will think you’re amazing doesn’t do anything to help you actually get the work done.

Focus On The Work, Not The Feedback

When those invasive thoughts slow you down, shut them out with this truth: I can’t control how people do or don’t respond to me. All I can control is what I do now.This will reduce your stress in the process and help you to get the work done which can lead to better results and therefore better feedback. And even if you do get some legitimate critique that can help you do a superior job next time, that’s okay. A growth mindset is healthy; recognize that you can always develop and improve over time. You don’t need to get everything right all at once.

Negative And Invasive Thoughts

If you’ve followed the above pieces of advice, you shouldn’t be scrambling at the last possible minute in order to get work done. You started early enough to at least get the basics done, didn’t over-invest in a particular part, and weren’t wrapped up in what other people might think.Now the deadline is here: so you give everything a final look over—then ship it out. <ul><li>Don’t redo a whole part that was already fine.</li><li>Don’t decide you’re going to go in a different direction.</li><li>Don’t keep refining it so much that it’s so amazing and you miss the deadline.</li><li>Do let it go.</li></ul>

Hold Yourself To Every Deadline

Yes, people want you to do excellent work. But many times good work delivered on time actually serves them better.Your boss, colleagues, and clients don’t need the mental burden of being constantly concerned that if something is in your court it might not get done or very likely will be late. If you consistently start to deliver on time, their trust levels in you will greatly increase, and they’ll need to spend little to no time and energy worrying about whether you’ll come through.

Don't Deplete Your Energy

Aiming for 'good enough' can dramatically improve your relationships and reduce work for you because you’ll need to spend less time replying to follow-ups and explaining why the work isn’t done.A perfectionist approach may seem like a great way to excel in your work, but it’s often counterproductive. If you use a few of these strategies, you can get more done with less stress.

Let Go Of The Perfectionist Approach

You’ll feel better when you’re done—over endlessly agonizing over a task.

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Productivity

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Problem Solving

Why getting things finished is better than getting things perfect

Calories are a measurement of energy a food provides. The proteins, fats, and carbohydrates in food contribute to the number of calories the food provides. Carbohydrate foods are made up of starches, fibre, and sugars and contain four calories per gram. Consuming a lot of refined carbohydrates like white rice and bread can result in excess calorie intake. If you count carbohydrates, ensure you eat enough fruits, vegetables and whole grains to get essential vitamins and minerals.

The Difference Between Carbs and Calories

<ul><li>Fat. A gram of fat provides nine calories. Foods high in fat can increase caloric intake and help you feel full and satiated. Eating a small amount of fatty food may make you feel satisfied sooner and help you eat less overall.</li><li>Protein. One gram of protein provides four calories. Proteins include animal proteins, plant-based proteins and legumes. Protein powers your muscles and contributes to healthy organs, hair and blood.</li><li>Sugar is a type of carbohydrate. Foods such as fruits and dairy products contain natural sugars that provide energy. Excess sugar consumption is linked to health issues.</li></ul>

Fat, protein and sugar

To lose weight you should burn more calories than you consume. You can burn more calories through exercise or increased daily activity or by consuming fewer calories each day. <ul><li>Calorie counting helps you monitor how much food you're consuming.</li><li>But not all calorie counters and apps are accurate. For some people, calorie counting could lead to disordered eating.</li><li>There's also a risk of nutritional deficiencies if you don't take a holistic view of your calorie intake.</li></ul>

Pros and cons of counting calories

Following a low-carb diet can be helpful for people to monitor their carb intake such as people with diabetes. <ul><li>It is relatively easy to track carb intake since nutrition labels clearly list carb counts.</li><li>However counting carbs may lead to overconsumption of foods that don't contain carbs, but are high in calories or other macronutrients.</li></ul>

Pros and cons of counting carbs

If you have a weight loss goal, you may consider whether to count or reduce carbs vs. calories in your diet. Both methods have pros and cons.

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Should You Count Calories or Carbs to Lose Weight?

If you question your beliefs enough, you end up with nothing but the pieces of a game. You end up with an understanding that everything that we can make sense of with words is a human construct that does not have a base of absolute truth.These constructs are what anchor your mind to reality. These constructs create the game that we’ve unconsciously built ourselves into.When you are aware of this game, you can learn to win it.

The Game

It is rare to see somebody that is living a passionate, zestful life.It is rarer to see somebody that willingly “works” all day.Building, writing, contemplating, curious, experiencing, diving deep into the unknown, and meditating on the problems that keep them up at night.Something has to change.If your future is the result of societal education and conditioning, it is safe to say you will have the same future as everyone else. And to be frank, that doesn’t seem very enticing.

Breaking Free Of The Conditioned Path

If you are lost, the answer is education. If you are educated, the answer is action. If you are acting, the answer is consistency.

Nothing worthwhile is predictable. There is not a set path. You cannot expect one, because if there were one, it would be taught in schools.The people that get paid the most are not those that are trained into an occupation constructed by society. Anybody can do that. That is how you become a “cog in the machine.”You’re reading this letter because you have a (good) desire for more in life. You want to bridge the gap between work and life. You want to live a life of zest, passion, and deep satisfaction for the domain you decide to pursue with full force.

Being Lost Is Inevitable When Pursuing An Original Path

You have to revive your child-like curiosity, feel into it, and let it guide you throughout life. Some people use the words intuition, your “calling,” your purpose, or anything else that refers to tapping into the intelligent voice inside you (that everyone is born with).A good place to start is to think about your childhood. Did you have a natural affinity towards anything? Did you gravitate towards specific interests? Some people may have a slight inclination towards sound, making them want to get into music.

The Path Of Self-Education

Diving real deep into a particular interest is how you pursue a truly unique path.Your curiosity would eventually lead you to something that seems completely unrelated to your the interest you initially chose. This differentiates you from the sea of individuals pursuing a set path — giving you informational leverage that you can charge big bucks for.

Diving Deep

It is the simple commitment to never rely on anything but yourself to actualize your potential.Money is no longer optional. The need for money is encoded in the system. We don’t live in huts or hunt our own food anymore. Our psyche remains the same — wired for survival — but the environment we live in is completely different.The first thing you should begin educating yourself on is a skill that will eventually help you make money. This can be anything really, but marketable skills are usually the best option (and beginner-level information is readily available online).

Adopt A Life Of Self-Education

The Domain Of Mastery has you choose 3 interests: What excites you, what lets you earn, and what develops you.By studying these and improving your skillset, you are diving deeper into the unknown. You are exposing yourself to information that schools won’t teach you.The thing that most people don’t understand is that in order to be a Master Of One, you have to be a jack of all trades. You have to dive deep into the iceberg of awareness if you want to be creative in that domain.

The Domain Of Mastery

Being a specialist can be trained. We are not trying to do something that others can be trained into.As you dive deeper into these interests, you will realize that they all lead to the same thing — which is life itself. The universe is a giant mind. A network of complex and creative systems.

The Specialist

When you learn Photoshop, aside from knowing how to navigate the software, there are only a few things you need to know — the principles.Selections, masks, and adjustment layers.When you understand those, you can pretty much create anything you would need (unless the project demands something more.This is true with almost anything. When you understand the principles, you can accomplish 80% of the work you would need to get done in that domain.

Study The Principles

Find a congruent voice that you can learn from.You may or may not get useful information from someone who talks strictly about business.Search for books, social media accounts, podcasters, YouTubers, and any other information you can find on your topic of interest. If what they teach does not register with you, find another mentor that has a congruent voice you can make sense of (and are excited to learn from).

Find “Mentors”

Kickstart a personal brand to post your learnings online. That alone will force you to understand money-making skills if you want to see real progress. Copywriting, marketing, persuasion, sales, etc are all necessary to put out an impactful message and turn your interests into income.Remember, you can only learn so much by learning. You have to apply what you learn if you want to open new mental pathways to explore.If you keep things in your head, you will get stuck in a loop of learning the same thing over and over without moving to the next level. You need real-world feedback.

Start A Real-World Project

Once the principles are solidified in your head and you are actively struggling/failing with your real-world project — you will start to recognize patterns in everyday life.Creating content brings an entirely new sense of enjoyment to life. Pattern recognition increases dopamine levels in the brain (because you are hunting for your survival). You start to recognize things you never have before — because they actually have a use case now.You start to appreciate the depth that life has to offer when you have something to apply your everyday experiences to — writing content online.

Observe The Connections

States are temporary.Stages are permanent.You can have a high month in business — which is a state — but it may not be maintained month to month.But, if you develop your business leverage to a point where it’s near impossible to dip under $20K a month, that is a stage.You can enter a flow state, or you can develop yourself to a point of being in a perpetual degree of flow (see: enlightenment).You can have a burst of creativity, or you can develop yourself to a point of having a baseline level of creativity.This is true for most traits, skills, and domains of life.

States And Stages

Most of your problems stem from mental limitations and blockages. If you want to master all areas of life, mental mastery must be at the top of your list.

As you dive deeper into your Domain Of Mastery, it will demand a certain amount of cognitive development to reach the next “stage.”When you reach this first stage, you are ready to start monetizing.Your job is to help people reach that stage of development faster than you did with what you learned along the way.You do this by selling a creative solution that will help someone navigate your path in less time.

The Path That You Discover

By helping others reach that developmental stage that you have (whether it’s free or paid) you are forced to organize the information and make connections.This will open up the room to reach your next developmental stage faster.When you have everything you’ve made sense of packaged up and hosted in the digital world — you don’t have to worry about it anymore. You get to build on top of it. Iteration.By doing this consistently over a 2-3 year span, you will bust through new stages of development, help others get there, and gain a deep satisfaction for life in general.

Being A Guiding Light

If you are intentional and actively expanding your awareness in search of your life’s work, you will find it. Here are two questions to meditate on:<ul><li>What is the BIG problem you want to solve in the world? The one that keeps you up at night.</li><li>What is the BIG problem you want to solve in your life? The one you know is holding you back.</li></ul>

Finding Your Calling

<ul><li>They don’t take themselves or their message seriously. They are too afraid of external judgement, it dilutes their message, and they get stuck in a developmental stage.</li><li>They are too focused on the money. This is fine at first, but given time leads to a lack of meaning and fulfilment in the work you’ve built yourself into. It becomes another 9-5 instead of your life’s work.</li><li>They do not see the value in consistent self-development (or they refuse to develop critical aspects that hold other aspects behind). Hence limiting their personal, creative, and professional potential.</li></ul>

Common Problems Of The Majority of People

<ul><li>Choose 3 interests that you are genuinely curious about.</li><li>Begin studying them via books and online content from a congruent voice that you are excited to learn with.</li><li>Build a real-world project and do not suppress the problems that come up. YOU will need to change at some point. You will lose some people and things from your life as your development demands.</li><li>If you stay on the unconventional path for more than 6 months — you will understand on a deep, internal level that it is impossible to fail.</li></ul>

The Three Takeaways

Your Life's Work is what your calling is and how you balance your work life.

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How To Discover (And Pursue) Your Life's Work - Dan Koe

When we decide to create a new habit — exercise, healthy eating, meditation, writing — we can get excited and optimistic, and have an idea of how it will go perfectly.This is such a hopeful time! Unfortunately, reality has other plans.Our perfect idea of how our new habit will go is pretty much never how it actually goes. We might do really well for a few days or even a couple of weeks, but inevitably we’ll miss a day or two because of tiredness, busyness, sickness, visitors, forgetting, etc. And then things get derailed, because of our perfect idea of how we hoped the habit would go.

The Obstacles In Creating A New Habit

Perfection is one of the main obstacles to forming habits. Our hopeful idea of how it will go, and then our disappointment and frustration with ourselves when it doesn’t go that way.The idea that we should be super consistent and perfect in our habit attempts …  derails us.

Your Perfect Expectations Is The Problem

What if we simply said, “Let me try to bring a daily ritual of doing X into my life, and be curious about what it will be like”?So there doesn’t have to be a fantasy that it will go perfectly or brilliantly. We don’t know how it will be. But we can bring an intention to do it, and a curiosity about what that will be like.Then we start doing it. We miss a day, but this is not a cause for discouragement. It’s a cause for curiosity — what got in the way? What would it be like to start again today?

Reality-Based Habit Change

Each day becomes a lovely place of learning.The “successful” days and “failure” days are not really binary results of success/failure, but instead a rich place of curiosity and learning.Instead of competing with ourselves, we can glide through forming a new habit by simply being open, curious and non-judgemental.

Learn Each Day

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Why Perfectionism Stops Us from Creating New Habits - zen habits

There are two types of perfectionists. 
<ul>
<li>Avoidant perfectionists have trouble beginning tasks. Deadlines trigger their anxiety about doing things perfectly, and therefore, they drag their feet when starting a new project.</li>
<li>Obsessive perfectionists tend to struggle to complete tasks. Both kinds of perfectionists have trouble prioritizing and struggle to allocate their time according to what’s most important. Both types also share a habit of expanding the scope of projects. But how you deal with these traits may differ according to the type you’re dealing with.</li>
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Figure Out Which Type of Perfectionist You’re Dealing With

Perfectionists tend to equate time with quality, so you’ll need to be particularly thoughtful and diplomatic in explaining why you don’t want to spend that much time on this project. The goal is to explain the opportunity cost of spending excess time filling in ten marginally useful columns of data when you could be serving the company in more productive ways. 
Be specific and detailed about what those “more productive ways” are, and clear and concrete in explaining why those additional 10 columns won’t be useful.

Don’t Internalize Unrealistic Expectations

Find out how your perfectionist colleague prefers to receive feedback. Some will prefer to receive it via email so they have a chance to privately process any initial defensive reactions they have. 
Self-aware perfectionists typically come-around to a constructive reaction once they’ve had time for their initial strong responses to feedback subside.

Giving Feedback

During team meetings, you might ask:<ul><li>Is there a simpler way we can achieve our goal?</li><li>Can we shrink down the amount of time we’re spending?</li><li>What’s the opportunity cost of spending extra time on this versus another task?</li></ul>For projects where you’re working with a perfectionist, you can also try creating a basic checklist to help the group stay organized, relieve anxieties surrounding to-dos, and ensure that nothing is being overlooked.

Support Processes that Help the Team Focus on the Big Picture

A perfectionist’s unrealistic expectations can unintentionally make their teammates feel like their time is not being valued. Let’s take the example of a hard-driving perfectionist who sends you an excessive number of emails — each one with a different question or suggestion — when he’s feeling overwhelmed.  You have to try setting boundaries.It’s important to recognize that every individual will engage in some self-sabotaging behaviours that, in turn, affect the rest of the team. But by developing boundaries, you will create a culture that encourages personal growth.

Set Boundaries

Mutual influence is when a teammate allows you to influence their way of thinking and vice versa. It is an important factor that helps any relationship feel more secure. 
If a perfectionist’s habits irritate you, try compromising. Identify elements of their routine that may be useful to incorporate into your own. If you expect someone else to bend to your way, then you need to show that you’re willing to bend to theirs.

Enhance Feelings of Security Through Mutual Influence

Five ways to prevent the relationship from becoming too draining.

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Teamwork

How to Collaborate with a Perfectionist

Say you need to learn a complicated skill: physics, French or computer programming. How much time should you spend building your background knowledge before you start practicing the actual skill?
Consider machine learning. One way to learn this field would be to master first the underlying math. Then, when you encountered the programming commands for certain mathematical functions, you’d know what they are doing behind the scenes.

Pre-Knowledge

At a basic level, we can contrast two ways of learning. One way is to memorize, by rote, the answer to every possible question in a domain. The other way is to learn a process for generating solutions in the domain.Children seem to do exactly this when learning arithmetic. They begin with a procedure, like counting. As they gain experience, they memorize more and more of the exact answers. Eventually, they are able to solve most arithmetic problems through recall alone, and the procedure of counting fades away.

The Prerequisites to Learning a Skill: Cognitive Skill Acquisition

<ul><li>Eventually, many answers are memorized. This results in fast, reliable access and helps us perform complicated skills smoothly. </li><li>The procedure of counting is more compact than an array of memorized facts. Thus the method is learned first, with fluently recalled answers coming only after much more experience.</li><li>The counting procedure can act as a backup. </li><li>The choice to use memorization or a procedure to find an answer depends on the effort needed to perform the procedure, the reliability of the procedure, and incentives surrounding accuracy. </li></ul>

Learning Math: Work Notes

When performing skills, we use a variety of methods, from following a procedure to retrieving an answer from memory. With increased practice, the memory component becomes dominant for routine situations. Even when we can’t get the exact solution from memory, we may find parts of the answer which we can use to solve the problem faster.Digging deeper has two benefits:<ul><li>It can provide a strategy to obtain the correct answer when memory fails. </li><li>It can assist in non-routine situations where no answer is known.</li></ul>

Digging Deeper

<ul><li>Methods that directly assist with learning a domain are necessary prerequisites. Even if a brute-force approach might work, good methods are more reliable than trial-and-error.</li><li>Routine performance is largely handled by drawing on direct experience—not working from first principles. </li><li>If the principles don’t actually lay out the actions needed for routine situations, then they are mainly helpful in non-routine cases. </li><li>These principles will probably only be relevant as your experience within a field grows.</li></ul>

Digging Deep Vs Diving In

Dig deep or dive right in? How much background knowledge do you need before you should start practicing a skill?

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How Much Do You Need to Know Before Getting Started? - Scott H Young

At its simplest, ethics is a system of moral principles. They affect how people make decisions and lead their lives.Ethics is concerned with what is good for individuals and society and is also described as moral philosophy.The term is derived from the Greek word ethos which can mean custom, habit, character or disposition.

What is ethics?

<ul><li>how to live a good life</li><li>our rights and responsibilities</li><li>the language of right and wrong</li><li>moral decisions - what is good and bad?</li></ul>Our concepts of ethics have been derived from religions, philosophies and cultures. They infuse debates on topics like abortion, human rights and professional conduct.

Ethics covers the following dilemmas

Philosophers nowadays tend to divide ethical theories into three areas: metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics.<ul><li>Meta-ethics deals with the nature of moral judgement. It looks at the origins and meaning of ethical principles.</li><li>Normative ethics is concerned with the content of moral judgements and the criteria for what is right or wrong.</li><li>Applied ethics looks at controversial topics like war, animal rights and capital punishment</li></ul>

Approaches to ethics

If ethical theories are to be useful in practice, they need to affect the way human beings behave.Some philosophers think that ethics does do this. They argue that if a person realises that it would be morally good to do something then it would be irrational for that person not to do it.But human beings often behave irrationally - they follow their 'gut instinct' even when their head suggests a different course of action.However, ethics does provide good tools for thinking about moral issues.

What use is ethics?

Most moral issues get us pretty worked up - think of abortion and euthanasia for starters. Because these are such emotional issues we often let our hearts do the arguing while our brains just go with the flow.But there's another way of tackling these issues, and that's where philosophers can come in - they offer us ethical rules and principles that enable us to take a cooler view of moral problems.So ethics provides us with a moral map, a framework that we can use to find our way through difficult issues.

Ethics can provide a moral map

Using the framework of ethics, two people who are arguing a moral issue can often find that what they disagree about is just one particular part of the issue, and that they broadly agree on everything else.That can take a lot of heat out of the argument, and sometimes even hint at a way for them to resolve their problem.But sometimes ethics doesn't provide people with the sort of help that they really want.

Ethics can pinpoint a disagreement

Ethics doesn't always show the right answer to moral problems.Indeed more and more people think that for many ethical issues there isn't a single right answer - just a set of principles that can be applied to particular cases to give those involved some clear choices.Some philosophers go further and say that all ethics can do is eliminate confusion and clarify the issues. After that it's up to each individual to come to their own conclusions.

Ethics doesn't give right answers

Many people want there to be a single right answer to ethical questions. They find moral ambiguity hard to live with because they genuinely want to do the 'right' thing, and even if they can't work out what that right thing is, they like the idea that 'somewhere' there is one right answer.But often there isn't one right answer - there may be several right answers, or just some least worst answers - and the individual must choose between them.For others moral ambiguity is difficult because it forces them to take responsibility for their own choices and actions, rather than falling back on convenient rules and customs.

Ethics can give several answers

<ul><li>Ethics is about the 'other': when a person 'thinks ethically' they are giving at least some thought to something beyond themselves.</li><li>Ethics is not only about the morality of particular courses of action, but it's also about the goodness of individuals and what it means to live a good life.</li><li>One problem with ethics is the way it's often used as a weapon: If a group believes that a particular activity is "wrong" it can then use morality as the justification for attacking those who practice that activity.</li></ul>

Ethics and people

At times in the past some people thought that ethical problems could be solved in one of two ways:<ul><li>by discovering what God wanted people to do</li><li>by thinking rigorously about moral principles and problems</li></ul>If a person did this properly they would be led to the right conclusion.But now even philosophers are less sure that it's possible to devise a satisfactory and complete theory of ethics: modern thinkers often teach that ethics leads people not to conclusions but to 'decisions'.In this view, the role of ethics is limited to clarifying 'what's at stake' in particular ethical problems

Searching for the source of right and wrong


<ul><li>Ethical realists think that human beings discover ethical truths that already have an independent existence.</li><li>Ethical non-realists think that human beings invent ethical truths.</li></ul>But the ethical properties of the world and the things in it exist and remain the same, regardless of what people think or feel - or whether people think or feel about them at all.

Ethical realists and non-realists

<ul><li>Moral realism is based on the idea that there are real objective moral facts or truths in the universe.</li><li>Subjectivism teaches that moral judgments are nothing more than statements of a person's feelings or attitudes, and that ethical statements do not contain factual truths about goodness or badness.</li><li>Emotivism is the view that moral claims are no more than expressions of approval or disapproval.</li><li>Prescriptivists think that ethical statements are instructions or recommendations.</li></ul>

Four ethical 'isms'

hilosophers have several answers to this question:<ul><li>God and religion</li><li>Human conscience and intuition</li><li>a rational moral cost-benefit analysis of actions and their effects</li><li>the example of good human beings</li><li>a desire for the best for people in each unique situation</li><li>political power.</li></ul>

Where does ethics come from?

Supernaturalism makes ethics inseparable from religion. It teaches that the only source of moral rules is God.So, something is good because God says it is, and the way to lead a good life is to do what God wants.

God-based ethics - supernaturalism

Intuitionists think that good and bad are real objective properties that can't be broken down into component parts. Something is good because it's good; its goodness doesn't need justifying or proving.Intuitionists think that goodness or badness can be detected by adults - they say that human beings have an intuitive moral sense that enables them to detect real moral truths.

Intuitionism

This is the ethical theory that most non-religious people think they use every day. It bases morality on the consequences of human actions and not on the actions themselves.Consequentialism teaches that people should do whatever produces the greatest amount of good consequences. One famous way of putting this is 'the greatest good for the greatest number of people'.

Consequentialism

<ul><li>Virtue ethics looks at virtue or moral character, rather than at ethical duties and rules, or the consequences of actions. Virtue ethics is particularly concerned with the way individuals live their lives, and less concerned in assessing particular actions.</li><li><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/introduction/situation_1.shtml">Situation ethics</a> rejects prescriptive rules and argues that individual ethical decisions should be made according to the unique situation. Rather than following rules the decision maker should follow a desire to seek the best for the people involved.</li></ul>

Virtue ethics and Situation ethics

<ul><li>Moral absolutism: Some people think there are such universal rules (that are always true) that apply to everyone. Religious views of ethics tend to be absolutist.</li><li>Moral relativists say that if you look at different cultures or different periods in history you'll find that they have different moral rules; "good" refers to the things that a particular group of people approve of.</li><li>Moral somewhere-in-between-ism: Most non-philosophers think that both of the above theories have some good points and think that there are a few absolute ethical rules, but a lot of ethical rules depend on the culture.</li></ul>

One of the big questions in moral philosophy is whether or not 

Ethics are a system of moral principles and a branch of philosophy which defines what is good for individuals and society. 

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Ethics - Introduction to ethics: Ethics: a general introduction

Clutter can be defined as anything that keeps us from living the life we are meant to lead, anything that stops us from our accomplishments and the true joy of living.
We clutter everything. Our homes, cars, storage compartments, offices, phones, and even our minds are filled with more clutter than we can possibly manage.

Overwhelmed With Clutter

Clutter is not just the physical things but can be digital, mental, emotional and spiritual.
<ul>
<li>Physical clutter is the stuff we accumulate.</li>
<li>Digital clutter is our overflowing inbox and the thousands of files saved on our phone/PC.</li>
<li>Mental clutter is our to-do list and our anxieties.</li>
<li>Emotional clutter can be the biases, negative thought patterns and obsolete beliefs we carry around like extra luggage.</li>
<li>Spiritual clutter can be not being at peace or the lack of forgiveness.</li>
</ul>

Types Of Clutter

Clutter, whether physical, mental or spiritual, can be distilled down to delayed and postponed decisions and the constant procrastination going on in our lives.
Take the physical paper files and email cluttering our office (or home) and our computers. Each email or piece of paper needs a decision we are not willing to make, postponing it and filing it away.

Clutter Is Postponed Decisions

Taking care of physical, emotional and mental clutter is hard enough, as our constant anxieties and thought patterns create a cobweb that paralyses us.
Spiritual clutter is even harder to take care of, as we don’t even know what is stopping us. It can be our guilt, our deep fears, hidden emotions, and even the ideas lying in the freezer that we have not worked on.

The Problem With Spiritual Clutter

Having clutter isn’t bad, but the guilt associated with the burden of postponed decisions is the real culprit. We need to face our fears and find ways to get rid of the emotional and spiritual clutter. A few ways can be:
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<li>Journaling daily.</li>
<li>Meditating daily.</li>
<li>Going out for a long walk in nature.</li>
<li>Talking to someone.</li>
<li>Taking positive action and moving forward.</li>
</ol>

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Most people jump straight from finding a problem to attempting to solve it.Having a systematic approach to how you deal with problems, as opposed to just going by gut and feelings, can make a big difference in how you creatively find answers to your obstacles.

Systematic approach

Detectives and investigators use the process. They ask both obvious and unthinkable questions.Get close and collect information about how the problem is manifesting. Understand where the problem does and doesn’t happen, when the problem started, and how often the problem occurs to generate critical insight for the problem-solving effort.

Study the problem first

<ul><li>Don’t look for solutions immediately; Keep redefining the problem until you arrive at the root cause.</li><li>Don’t try to guess the solution; try to understand how the obstacles, or challenges manifest first.</li><li>Gather data to analyze all potential root causes.</li><li>Consider all options, regardless of how irrelevant they currently appear.</li><li>Find a way to connect the dots. Make better analogies. One good analogy is worth three hours of discussion.</li></ul>

Question for great answers

<ul><li>A problem broken down is half way solved. E.g: if you don’t have enough money to get a mortgage, you could divide the obstacle into “too little income,” “high expenses,” and “expectations of future house.”</li><li>Address each category on its own.</li><li>Once you have categories, it’s very easy to continue digging.</li><li>Finally, execute the best action plan.</li></ul>The point of analysis is to never accept statements at face value, including your own.

Break the obstacle down

In many situations when people encounter a problem, they tend to default to what they should do instead of asking what they could do.Could helps you think outside an existing problem to generate more creative solutions.Should narrows your thinking process to one answer, the one that seems most obvious.

A “could” mindset

Concentrating harder won’t force that ‘eureka moment’ you need.Instead, your best option might be to step away from the problems and get do something unrelated to the project.When you stop thinking about a task, your brain continues working on the problem in the background.

Don’t rush the thinking process

For many years, scientists have found that amazing ideas, solutions to problems and obstacles often come to people when they aren’t actively trying to develop a solution.The incubation period works because your brain gets to take a break from everything distracting you.

The power of the incubation period

Working backwards is useful when the final result is clear but the initial portion of a problem is obscure.Reverse engineering allows you to notice patterns your brain normally ignores.

Work backwards

In many cases, when you are tempted to stay up late to find a solution to an obstacle, you might be better sleeping on it.The brain makes better connections when you are asleep, allowing you to make new and useful associations between unrelated ideas.Your brain might solve the problem for you while you’re fast asleep.

It pays to sleep on it

"You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability." - Michael J. Gelb Hurdles are disheartening, and they're often unavoidable. It happens to all of us. Even the most successful people you admire face obstacles everyday. Life is like a game of chess. There is an infinite number of ways to play.

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