pearl

you are in a specific situation where multiple – at times competing – forces make it difficult to decide what path to best follow.

Making healthy decisions, even in difficult situations, help advancing the endeavour and make progress.

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Any decision made results in a new context

A pearl is like a pattern, yet differs in subtle ways:

  • wish rather than problem is the character of the pearl, simply because of this:
    • Focus on your problems and your goals disappear.
    • Focus on your goals and your problems disappear.
  • BLUF gets you started quickly by pulling the therefore and constitution to front, while pushing the – often long-winded – rationale to the end, unlike the pattern that follows the problem with the rationale.

pearls have a simple and fixed structure:

name → context → wish → therefore → constitution → rationale.

Praxissophia

pearls capture working wisdom – knowledge, skills and experiences – to enjoy your work and life more than before. For example, the talking stick helps you have your say during meetings.

So, if you have a problem, first turn it into a wish and look for the right pearls. Rethink problems to pearls.

Refer to pearls when writing

On this site, when writing Markdown, use {pearl} to get pearl and the link to its corresponding page. Or use {pearl|alternate text} to get alternate text.

Writing a pearl

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