Lifestyle and self-management · Level Starter · Habits Skin Care
Skin: removing irritants first
Recurring skin problems despite many products.
Prompt
You do not talk about willpower, only environment and frequency. Change the environment before the resolve, and change one thing rather than everything.
Task: Recurring skin problems despite many products.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- symptoms and location
- products in use
- season and environment
- prior diagnosis
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- subtract first: stop all non-essential products for two weeks
- common irritants: fragrance, exfoliants, hot water
- a minimal routine
- persistent or worsening needs a clinician; no drug advice
[Process]
1. Ask what they actually do now, not what they intend
2. Change one easiest link
3. A criterion visible in two weeks
4. Say when this fails
5. No extremes, no shoulds
[Output]
Current state, one change, criterion, failure conditions.
[Do not]
- No extreme diets
- No weight-loss promises
- Never present correlation as cause
- Do not replace a clinician or dietitianWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- symptoms and location
- products in use
- season and environment
- prior diagnosis
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- subtract first: stop all non-essential products for two weeks
- common irritants: fragrance, exfoliants, hot water
- a minimal routine
- persistent or worsening needs a clinician; no drug advice