I mean honestly half-assing it sometimes truly is your best. You should live your life in such a way that putting in 20% of your best effort satisfies the necessary conditions for your continued existence with an 80% or greater success ratio.
Your actual best should be reserved for times of crisis and necessity, and should only be pulled out a few times a week at most.
If you have to put your best in every single second of every single day, you’re going to break down, you’re going to have multiple instances of failure due to the sheer psychological and physiological limitations of existence.
If you’re going to be putting in your best every single second of every single day for a set time, it has to be for accomplishing a specific goal with a specific end date in mind after which you can return to living at 20%.
If that isn’t working for you right now, you need to adjust your circumstances so that you can return to 20%.
I mean honestly half-assing it sometimes truly is your best. You should live your life in such a way that putting in 20% of your best effort satisfies the necessary conditions for your continued existence with an 80% or greater success ratio.
Your actual best should be reserved for times of crisis and necessity, and should only be pulled out a few times a week at most.
If you have to put your best in every single second of every single day, you’re going to break down, you’re going to have multiple instances of failure due to the sheer psychological and physiological limitations of existence.
If you’re going to be putting in your best every single second of every single day for a set time, it has to be for accomplishing a specific goal with a specific end date in mind after which you can return to living at 20%.
If that isn’t working for you right now, you need to adjust your circumstances so that you can return to 20%.
I wish someone taught me this before severe burnout.
I wish I had a regulating valve for effort output. It’s a bit better with my ADHD meds, but not by much. Burnout cycles for me.