How I cook breakfast quickly.
- Wash my hands
- Take out the small and big frying pans.
- Put each in the stove.
- Turn on the stove
- Oil the small pan
- Get the tortillas from the fridge
- Put the tortillas on the big pan
- While they are heating, get a bowl
- Get 3 eggs
- Break the eggs into the bowl.
- Throw the eggshells to the disposer
- Empty the raw eggs into the small pan
- Get the beans from the fridge
- Get a spoon
- Get a bowl
- Get a container cover
- Put some beans in the bowl
- Put the cover over the bowl
- Put the bowl in the microwave
- Set the microwave to 1 min
- Turn the eggs over
- Get a plate
- Get a table cloth
- Get a fork
- Put the table cloth on the kitchen table
- Put the plate over it
- Put the fork next to it
- Turn off the small pan stove
- Get the pan and empty the egg over the plate
- Take the beans out of the microwave
- Turn off the big pan stove.
- Get the water pitcher
- Put the water pitcher under the fridge's water filter to fill it.
- While the pitcher fills, eat.
- Put the plate and fork on the sink
- Put away the table cloth
- Put the beans in the fridge
- Put the tortillas on the fridge
- Take the water pitcher and put it on the table
- Get a glass and put it next to the pitcher
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philosophy projects have a lot of steps too.
why are most philosophy projects hard for most people? they involve lots of steps that you aren't already good at. and trying to learn all the steps at once is overwhelming.
if you didn't know how to do the steps in your breakfast already, figuring out all 40 at once would be a bad idea.
imagine someone didn't know how to use a bowl, use a sink to wash their hands, use a stove, etc. they'd need to start a lot smaller to learn that stuff instead of trying to cook a whole breakfast.
True, I did not expect that to take 40 steps.
As I use more and more metrics in my routine, I realize how much work I have to do to get it right. This has given me some perspective. If I can't even get showering or eating right, then I have to put as much effort and attention into mastering those before I try to do more complicated things.
> why are most philosophy projects hard for most people? they involve lots of steps that you aren't already good at. and trying to learn all the steps at once is overwhelming.
It's also hard for me to even know what the steps are in learning philosophy.
you know something about some steps. you can build on that. e.g. some steps involve reading. you can build on that, e.g. by looking into different types or styles of reading to solve particular problems. e.g. sometimes philosophy work requires more precise or literal reading than the regular way people read. "precisely read this paragraph" is a step you might find in a philosophy project.