70% is enough

We can get a lot of work if we are satisfied with 70%. 80% is not good. 90% is also not good. 70% is just right. In this way, work will carry on smoothly and stress free.

For example, I don't really elaborate over and over again on blog articles. There are probably many misspellings (sometimes someone will point out), but I can easily correct them. There can be no mistakes on translation jobs, so I aim for 100%. However, there are many tasks where 70% is enough.

I think it's better to focus 100% on jobs that don't allow any mistakes to be made and jobs that only require 70% concentration can be a little sloppy. It's better in terms of improving productivity if we balance our concentration on our work.


Above is translation of an article "７０％で良しとする" dated December 02, 2017
Translation by Hiroko Matsuda