Thought help: I am having so much trouble finishing my paper. - Help.com

just take some time in a room without much distraction and all of your matireas. Go pee & get water before you go into the room, then don’t leave for a couple hours. You’ll be surprised how much you get done.

I don’t really know anything about that specific topic but…what I usually do is, while i’m skimming through the material, note all the things that you think will be essential for the paper. Write them down under different headings. Another thing is to sketch out the paper. So have an outline of how the paper will be, paragraph by paragraph or idea by idea. That way you’ll know exactly what you’re looking for and where you want to put it. Do a “no stress” draft and then work on it from there.

I agree with Mini on practicing focusing techniques. Also, start with an outline and then start working through it. And, of course, write something, anything and then go back and edit. Sometimes things come out as you do drafts.

Per the morality question: my thoughts are that doing right based on fear of being punished is not a moral code at all - its a simple calculation that a person with such a baseless moral compass has to do whenever presented with a dilemma. Having such a moral code is limiting because if you remove or reduce the chance of being caught(and punished) then a person with such a set of morals will just go ahead and commit whatever acts the punishments were designed to disuade them from committing in the first place. Another limitation of such a system of morals is that it creates a very confrontational, negative way of being. Instead of choosing what’s right out of a sense of goodness, there’s a constant internal struggle with such a person to try to avoid punishment.

Its a funny coincidence that I just posted a question about a woman who found my wallet that I lost. I think it has about 50 dollars in it. She called me tonight to tell me that she had it and I said “I don’t know how much is in it, but i’ll make sure you get 20 dollars as a reward”. Do you think she will take the money out of the wallet and say there was only 10? I won’t really ever know - because I don’t know for sure how much was in there. It could also be that someone else took the money out of the wallet before she found it and left all the cards.

Anyway, I’m just really grateful that she called and even though I losing that money will hurt. I’d rather all the money was kept and I retrieved my cards.

Thanks for all of the replies. I do have a rough draft, but I will go off into a room now and try to piece it together.

That’s an interesting conundrum, bushido. I’m glad that woman was kind enough to call you to return it to you. I had my wallet stolen in Barcelona once, and it was mailed back to my home in New York four weeks later, with everything in it but the money.

I imagine that if she called you to let you know, she’ll be honest about how much money was in it. Giving her a reward is a nice gesture. It seems she, unlike Job, is acting out of a higher sense of what is right, rather than only to avoid punishment (after all, how would you know she had found the wallet? She didn’t need to call you, and I’m sure she didn’t expect a reward).

Good luck with that, I know how unsettling it can be to lose something like a wallet. And thanks for your input with my question. This whole website seems to exist on a higher plane of community and camaraderie, one that is active rather than reactive, yes?