Wisdom overview
Definition
proportional effort protects competing obligations. some duties require exact compliance.
Related traditions
Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Model · Achievement Goal Theory and Perfectionism
Key thinkers
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Related books
Never Good Enough · When Perfect Isn't Good Enough
Core meaning
Understanding Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard
Definition
proportional effort protects competing obligations. some duties require exact compliance.
Historical understanding
Read the historical views in the archive text below.
Modern interpretation
Apply the concept with context, proportion, and attention to its philosophical sources.
Practical wisdom
Use good enough can be an ethical standard as a practice of perfectionism · fear-of-failure · self-criticism · wisdom: return to the definition, examine the situation, and choose a proportionate next action.
Philosophical perspectives
Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Model
Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Model: separates mistakes, doubt and related dimensions. See the defining evidence, a specific example, practical.
Achievement Goal Theory and Perfectionism
Achievement Goal Theory and Perfectionism: approach/avoidance motives clarify outcomes. See the defining evidence, a specific example, practical implications, and.
Definition
proportional effort protects competing obligations. The idea rejects both careless work and the demand for impossible certainty.
Historical Views
At the definition check for Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard, the analysis keeps a separate evidential task. For the Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard search intent, a useful paragraph must change a decision. It therefore links proportional effort protects competing obligations to this action: identify the rigid rule, define a flexible alternative, test it in one context, and review functioning rather than reassurance. The reader then checks the prediction against an outcome and keeps the explicit limit that some duties require exact compliance.
Different Cultural Perspectives
Standards, honor, interdependence, schooling, labor, and public evaluation vary across cultures. Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard cannot assume that autonomy, disclosure, or error carries the same meaning everywhere.
Practical Lessons
The exact editorial claim is: proportional effort protects competing obligations. That is narrower than a general page about perfectionism because this page owns the Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard intent. For Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard, The dimensions of perfectionism anchors the primary claim; Perfectionism in the self and social contexts supplies a different measurement, clinical, developmental, or contextual check.
Kai revises a routine presentation through the night because “adequate” feels unsafe. The Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard analysis identifies the feared consequence, the actual quality requirement, and one observable experiment with a stopping rule. This case matters because it makes the claim falsifiable. The practical test is to identify the rigid rule, define a flexible alternative, test it in one context, and review functioning rather than reassurance. The review asks what changed in delay, distress, checking, performance, repair, or functioning—not whether the person felt perfectly certain.
The strongest boundary is explicit: some duties require exact compliance. A durable maxim remains incomplete until consequences, duties, and unequal power are considered. In the Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard analysis, cross-sectional association cannot establish a single cause, a group average cannot diagnose an individual, and a workbook exercise cannot substitute for care when symptoms are severe or risky.
At the observation check for Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard, the analysis keeps a separate evidential task. For Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard, this section begins with proportional effort protects competing obligations. The concrete test uses kai revises a routine presentation through the night because “adequate” feels unsafe. the good enough can be an ethical standard analysis identifies the feared consequence, the actual quality requirement, and one observable experiment with a stopping rule. Evidence from The dimensions of perfectionism addresses the main proposition, while Perfectionism in the self and social contexts checks scope. The conclusion stops where some duties require exact compliance.
Related Thinkers
- Perfectionism Fear of Failure and Self Criticism — clarifies the collection boundary needed for Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard.
- Perfectionism — clarifies the topic boundary needed for Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard.
- Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Model — clarifies the philosophy boundary needed for Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard.
- How to Know When Good Enough Is Enough — clarifies the answer boundary needed for Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard.
- What Is Perfectionism — clarifies the answer boundary needed for Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard.
Sources
- The dimensions of perfectionism — Randy O. Frost et al.; Cognitive Therapy and Research 14, 449–468 (1990). Used here for the central Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard claim.
- Perfectionism in the self and social contexts — Paul L. Hewitt and Gordon L. Flett; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 60(3), 456–470 (1991). Used here for scope, mechanism, or an alternative explanation.
Page-Specific Research Notes
Claim being tested. For Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard, the page tests the proposition that proportional effort protects competing obligations. This claim is deliberately narrower than the authority hub. It identifies the exact behavior, relationship, context, model, or decision that belongs here and prevents a neighboring page from targeting the same query.
At the evidence check for Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard, the analysis keeps a separate evidential task. The Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard question cannot be answered by a general perfectionism label. Its page-specific answer is proportional effort protects competing obligations. In the worked situation, kai revises a routine presentation through the night because “adequate” feels unsafe. the good enough can be an ethical standard analysis identifies the feared consequence, the actual quality requirement, and one observable experiment with a stopping rule. The finding remains provisional because some duties require exact compliance.
Worked observation. Kai revises a routine presentation through the night because “adequate” feels unsafe. The Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard analysis identifies the feared consequence, the actual quality requirement, and one observable experiment with a stopping rule. The observation is recorded before interpretation: what happened, when it happened, how often it recurred, what the person predicted, and what functional cost followed. This prevents the label “perfectionism” from becoming a circular explanation for every careful, delayed, or distressed action.
Counterexample for Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard. A person may set an exacting standard, check important work twice, or feel disappointed after failure while remaining flexible, functional, and able to revise the rule. That counterexample shows why high effort or discomfort alone cannot establish the Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard pattern described by this page.
At the counterexample check for Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard, the analysis keeps a separate evidential task. A reader evaluating Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard should separate observation, interpretation, intervention, and review. The interpretation is proportional effort protects competing obligations; the intervention is to identify the rigid rule, define a flexible alternative, test it in one context, and review functioning rather than reassurance; the review measures functioning. The dimensions of perfectionism anchors that sequence, but some duties require exact compliance.
Stop rule. some duties require exact compliance. If eating, sleep, work, study, relationships, intrusive thoughts, compulsions, depression, or safety are substantially impaired, the page routes toward qualified help. It never asks a reader to self-diagnose from a score or persist with an experiment that increases risk.
Knowledge-graph rationale. The route decisions connects Good Enough Can Be an Ethical Standard to a definition or model, one discriminating comparison, and a practical or safety destination. Those links answer the next likely question. Pages connected only by a broad “perfectionism” tag are intentionally excluded from the relation set.
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Archive references
Sources
- 01The dimensions of perfectionismBy Randy O. Frost et al.Cognitive Therapy and Research 14, 449–468 (1990).Consult source
- 02Perfectionism in the self and social contextsBy Paul L. Hewitt and Gordon L. FlettJournal of Personality and Social Psychology 60(3), 456–470 (1991).Consult source
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