RE: Hank and John

Hello Nerdfighters! If you missed my last post, 80 Percenting: Putting it To The Test! , you might want to go check it out before continuing here. This post is a part 2 to my 80 percenting adventure. As a quick recap, last week I shared my experiences of "80 percenting" things in my daily life. This inspiration came from Episode 101: Knit Like a Mofo of  Dear Hank and John . More specifically, in the pod Hank Green made the suggestion that the first 80% of the effort is only 20% of the work, while the last 20% is 80% of the work. In order to test this out, I shared with you 4 instances of implementing this philosophy in my life, but I sort of left you hanging on the last one. I apologize, but I was only following Hank's advice and that meant I could only post 80% of my work. But, the time has come! Here's my fifth and final attempt (well... sixth if you count 80 percenting the blog) at putting in 80% of the effort into my daily chores. _____________________...

Hello Nerdfighters! I was recently listening to some episodes of Dear Hank and John  from late 2017 and I came across a particularly brilliant conversation. In  Episode 101: Knit Like a Mofo  (one of my personal favorite pod titles), Hank and John Green discuss the concept of "80 percenting". This conversation happens in the first few minutes of the pod when John was discussing how much effort he was putting into finishing the edits on his yet-to-be-released novel Turtles All The Way Down.  Here's Hank's response: "John, do you know about 80 percenting?... 80 percenting is the idea that the first 80 percent of the work is actually only 20 percent of the work and the last 20 percent is like 80 percent of the work. So getting 80 percent of the way there is 20 percent and then getting the last 20 percent is like 80 percent of the work. And so what you should do is just forget about that last 20 percent." Okay. That was complicated, Hank. I'm going to ...