Maximum Efficiency of Ass
A piece of reader correspondence in the Washington Post*:
My mom used to get really upset at what she perceived as my half-assing. I’m 48 now, have a PhD and a thriving an influential career, and I still think there’s very little that’s worthy of applying my whole entire ass. I’m not interested in burning myself [out] by whole-assing stuff that will be fine if I half- or quarter-ass it. Being able to achieve maximum efficiency of ass is an important adult skill.
*via Oliver Burkeman’s recent book, in a chapter called “On the False Allure of Effort.”
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