100% Effort
Have you ever wondered that sometimes it does take 100% effort to achieve something -- 70% or 80% would not do. For example, if you are dieting and want to reduce your weight in a given time frame, it is not possible to say "I will diet 5 days in a week and indulge myself the other two days" and still expect to achieve the desired outcome. You might be tempted to say "After all I have kept my deal 70% of the time". No, it does not work that way. Dieting 5 days would certainly help as compared to not dieting at all, but the difference between dieting all 7 days and 5 days is too wide. The pay off drop between a 100% effort and a 70% effort is not linear, rather exponential. This phenomenon is even more interesting when applied to the moral and ethical fronts. For example, can you say I would be honest 80% of the times? I would be truthful to myself and others 75% of the time? Is such a line of thought possible? Can person's character be evaluated by some averagin...