我非常激动的想推荐这篇文章，因为从来没有人教过我但我截至目前为止的人生都在践行 half-assing（不做多余的努力），然而我是实现的不那么好的一类人，或者说由于胸无大志，哪怕刚刚做到目标，也是比较低水平的目标而已😰。
回到这篇文章，half-assing 指的以下几点：
这里就涉及到自我意识了，我们必须从他人给我们制定的目标和路线中觉醒过来，知道自己想要什么，想达到什么成就，而不是其他人对我们的期待。
然后我们评估自己的实力和目标，奋力去完成它，但不要用力过度。
这样做，是最有效率的方式，我们可以抽身出来做更多的事情，体验更多种的人生。
以上也许是我偏颇的带有个人色彩的理解，还请自己读完文章。
I hang out around a lot of effective altruists. Many of them are motivated primarily by something like guilt (for having great resource and opportunity while others suffer) or shame (for not helping enough). Hell, many of my non-EA friends are primarily motivated by guilt or shame.
I'm not going to criticize guilt/shame motivation: I have this policy where, when somebody puts large amounts of effort or money towards making the world a better place, I try really hard not to condemn their motives. Guilt and shame may be fine tools for jarring people out of complacence. However, I worry that guilt and shame are unhealthy long-term motivators. In many of my friends, guilt and shame tend to induce akrasia, reduce productivity, and drain motivation. So over the next few weeks, I'll be writing a series of posts about removing guilt/shame motivation and replacing it with something stronger.
Say you're a college student, and you have a paper due. The quality of the paper will depend upon the amount of effort you put in. We'll say that you know the project pretty well: you can get an A with only moderate effort, and with significant effort you could produce something much better than the usual A-grade paper.
The education environment implicitly attempts to convince students that their preferences point ever rightward along this line. Parents and teachers say things like "you should put in your best effort," and they heap shame upon people who don't strive to push ever rightward along the quality line.