I only give a full 180% when there's no clear cut example/description of the desired end product. And I only find this out after seeing other people's work and realizing that I way overanalyzed the assignment and was stressing and procrastinating about an over the top concept of what I thought they wanted

Unrelated, I spent over 6 months avoiding a final project for my degree that I banged out in 3 days. A week if you include the days between being told where and what to revise because I didn't add some files how they wanted them... Which wasn't documented.