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…
A couple of months ago I posted some examples of why my favourite thing about Sam’s instagram is his wife’s comments, and I thought it was time for an update.
“Even the proposal which he thought was the save all of our relationship was never the way I would have like to be proposed to. I never liked video games, but I sat through them because I loved him. Our relationship turned into a mother and son relationship where I had to remind him about things, I had to deal with his financial mistakes, his violent outbursts etc. We never did things normal couples would do like go out, dance, parties, sit under the stars.
I told him in July that he had a month to change my mind and it didn’t happen, so I broke up with him. I have big prospects in life and I am a highly motivated individual, but it was extremely challenging to have to be someone else’s motivation to simply get out of bed or get off of his video games. As far as his half-brother goes, Tyler had asked him to check in on me and ask me how I was doing after I broke up with him, so of course we got close. And our relationship just built from there. I did not leave Tyler for his half-brother and I have never been unfaithful to Tyler.””
Today’s mood: still mad that there’s no option in DA:O to invoke Right of Conscription at Redcliffe and recruit Jowan to the Grey Wardens
That was the original plan in development, but they changed their minds because they are cowards!
Good lord, was it really? No wonder his wrap-up is so unsatisfying.
Of course, now I’m imagining other uses of that particular card. Because, I mean, we really do need more competent people working for the Wardens (and while I do want to save Jowan, it’s more because I think he got a raw deal than because I think he’s actually going to be, er, useful).
Consider: imprison Loghain, conscript Anora.
Congrats, Jowan, you can go make a weird old god baby with Morrigan now, at least that can’t cause a succession crisis later on.
Overdressed & Underappreciated 