📚 “How to Be Perfect” by Michael Schur

🎨 Dilemma: What do we do with morally questionable creators (e.g., Woody Allen, Picasso)?

📜 Ethical angles: Separating art from artist.

🎯 Takeaway: It’s okay to feel uncomfortable. Your feelings matter. Try not to fund the bad behavior.

🎭 Bulletproof Hack: Support living, non-criminal artists you can feel good about.

🥊 Spoiler alert: No.

📜 Philosophy cameo: Thomas Hobbes — society needs rules.

🎯 Takeaway: The social contract exists to keep everyone’s nose intact.

🎈 Fun Thought: If you’re even asking this question, you’re already ethical enough not to.

🛒 Moral tension: Nobody’s watching… will you do it?

📜 Philosophy tie-in: Virtue ethics (Aristotle) — develop good habits.

🎯 Takeaway: Be the person who returns the cart. It’s a micro-good-deed that builds macro character.

🎖️ Foolproof Rule: Pretend your future self is judging you (because they are).

💣 More face punching?? We’re spiraling.

📜 Point: Empathy and shared humanity are the glue of society.

🎯 Takeaway: Your power isn’t in what you can do. It’s in what you choose not to.

🦸 Superhero Rule: The ethical person is basically Spider-Man in sweatpants.

📈 Shift: Less jokes, more growth.

📜 Answer: Progress over perfection. Moral growth is a journey, not a checklist.

🎯 Takeaway: Self-awareness, good questions, and trying again are the path to goodness.

🎉 Joy Hack: You’re not supposed to be perfect — just better than yesterday.

🤝 Core idea: Morality is about how we treat each other.

📜 T.M. Scanlon’s philosophy: Ethics is relational, not individualistic.

🎯 Takeaway: Being good isn’t just about you — it’s about creating a better “us.”

🌍 Joyful Reframe: It’s not just about being a good person — it’s about being good company in the world.

🚃 Iconic question: Do you pull the lever to save 5 people by killing 1?

📜 Moral thought exercise: No perfect answer.

🎯 Takeaway: Life is full of impossible choices. Ethics teaches us to live with complexity.

🎢 Fun Fact: Even ethicists don’t agree — and that’s the point.

🔑 Real-life ethics: Action over abstraction.

📜 Key principle: Use ethics as a compass, not a cage.

🎯 Takeaway: Think, try, learn, grow, mess up, apologize, try again.

💡 Foolproof Equation: Curiosity + humility + empathy = how to be “perfectly trying.”

💭 Michael’s mic drop: Trying to be good is itself good.

✨ Message: We’re not here to be perfect. We’re here to try. And that’s beautiful.

🎁 Joyful Moral: The pursuit of goodness is messy, funny, meaningful, and so very human.

“This book won’t make you perfect. But it might make you less annoying at parties and more patient at red lights.”