Hey there. Orianna here from Fortune.

Hollywood’s Scarlett Johansson was the fourth-highest paid actor in 2025, behind Adam Sandler, Tom Cruise, and Mark Wahlberg. Her net worth? Around $165 million. She could pay every personal chef, nanny, and assistant money can buy. Yet work-life balance eludes her.

And if you want success like hers—the career, the family, the product line, and more—first, you’ve got to make peace with that.

“I think actually admitting that there is no work-life balance is the first step to getting there in a way because it’s just not possible,” Johansson told CBS Sunday Morning, as reported in Fortune.

Johansson, who became a parent in 2014, said there will almost always be a “deficit” somewhere. But that’s okay. In fact, the trick is leaning into that.

“Somebody once told me, ‘If you’re successful as a parent like 75% of the time, that’s good’—if you’re doing 75% of it like right, then you’re winning, which is probably true,” Johansson said.

And the same goes for every other role in your life. “I’ve learned to be more kind to myself in that way. You can’t do all of these things all the time,” Johansson said. “There’s just like, ‘Is it good enough?’”

Essentially, even the people who seem to “have it all” usually don’t. Neatly splitting your life into “work” and “life” is probably impossible. And the second you recognize that, things get a lot easier. You can stop treating every unfinished email, missed workout, or late dinner like proof you’re failing.

Because really 80% good—or in Johansson’s case 75%—is not just enough. It gets more done faster, keeps momentum going, and is far better than letting perfect be the enemy of done.

—Orianna Rosa Royle
Success Associate Editor, Fortune

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