tj-teejay:

jumpingjacktrash:

the-real-seebs:

bpd-anon:

Growing up, I was told from many sources (books, tv, parents, teachers, inspirational quotes) that you should never half ass anything. That in everything you do, you should give your all. Honestly, that’s a recipe for misery and burnout. You need to half ass most things so you have enough ass left to give your whole ass to the things you care about. Or at least I do.

Executive function is absolutely a thing. But there’s a lot of things that are Done Better if you do them carefully, and doing them badly ends up being a spoon drain. The trick is learning to figure out which ones…

also asking yourself occasionally, “does this deserve my whole ass?” because quite often the task deserves about 28% of the left cheek

There’s actually a thing they teach you in work seminars, called the Pareto principle or the 80/20 rule. Because you can often achieve 80% of the work by expending 20% of your energy, while to get the last 20% to make the work perfect, it takes 80% of your energy. And if you want to work efficiently, you should ask yourself if the task or project you’re working on really requires that you deliver an end product that is a 100% perfect.

80/20 got me just fine through school and university, and it’s making my life easier in my daily work, too. Cause, you know, that PowerPoint slide works just as well if the clipart doesn’t a 100% match the colour theme of the template…