80 Percenting: Putting it To The Test!
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 ...