portraitoftheoddity: muccamukk: jumpingjacktrash: the-real-seebs: bpd-anon: Growing up, I was...

portraitoftheoddity:

muccamukk:

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

I had a friend from Queens who used to say, “We ain’t building a piano!” about tasks like that.

Also, the idea that you should never half-ass anything leads to a whole “all or nothing” attitude, that can be very detrimental. Yeah, okay, if you’re building a bridge hundreds of people cross every day, don’t half-ass it. But if your options are turning in a half-assed paper for partial credit or zero-assing it and handing in nothing for no credit? HALF-ASS AWAY.