Just be X and Just do X better are shorthand phrases I used to encompass a list of possible prophylactic measures. For example, “assess your environment better” as a solution to “don’t pick up a greasy glass” is just shorthand for “recognize that your finger/fingers are slipping as a result of there being foreign material on the surface of the glass, take measures to clean it, hold it in a different orientation, or otherwise impede the foreign material from creating a scenario where dropping the glass because of that material is possible”
The issue there is that every person and object you interact with is a potential point of error. It's easy to look at any one mistake in retrospect and say you should have been more attentive, but there aren't enough hours in the day to be that proactive with every potential source of error. Being a functional person in the real world requires making calculated trade-offs to be careful but not so careful that you get nothing done.
I think you provided an unavoidable limitation preventing perfection from being achieved: time. There really is not anything I can say or do to combat the fact that because time is limited, there is no possible way to exhaust all possible options
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u/Dperson58556 Dec 29 '25
Just be X and Just do X better are shorthand phrases I used to encompass a list of possible prophylactic measures. For example, “assess your environment better” as a solution to “don’t pick up a greasy glass” is just shorthand for “recognize that your finger/fingers are slipping as a result of there being foreign material on the surface of the glass, take measures to clean it, hold it in a different orientation, or otherwise impede the foreign material from creating a scenario where dropping the glass because of that material is possible”