On Learning to Half-Ass Things…and Accepting It

Jen Xu
4 min readJan 3, 2024

It sounds counter-intuitive to half-ass things. But for someone who is hard-headed, intense, and stupidly aggressive at times, sometimes you have to learn to half-ass things / learn to accept it.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean that we shouldn’t give 100%…or 110%, for those of us who are slightly insane. I mean that we should give the same effort at 100%, just for less time, and that it’s okay to do that. To whole-ass means to give 100% in time and effort, in the way that others around you are doing so. It’s hard to explain. I’ll put it this way —…

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Jen Xu

Athletic trainer, PhD student, coffee lover. I write about fitness, mental health, being Asian-American, and personal growth.