Parkinsons law states: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Which means that if you have an assignment due to next week, the assignment will only be finished next week. But if youre given 2 months time for the same assignment, then the assignment will take 2 months to complete. Time pressure forces you to complete a task in the given time. If there is no pressure attached to a task then it will take forever to finish. Therefore, the more time you give yourself for a job, the more time that particular job will take. The more time youre given, the more important a task will seem. A task that has to be finished within an hour isnt perceived important, but a task thats to be finished in 2 months will become a mental monstrosity. Complexity also rises in relation to the allocated time, the more time allocated, the better the perceived quality of the task should be and the more work your mind thinks it will take. Therefore making it overly complex and difficult. If you work under time pressure, you have no choice but to do the absolute minimum required to get the task done. If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do. Variations On Parkinsons Law Finance: The more money you earn the more money you spend. To become rich, you have to break the law and resist the urge to increase your spending if your income increases. This effect is also known as the second law of Parkinson. Storage space: The bigger the available space, the more junk it can hold. What happens to people who buy a bigger house? It fills with stuff. Not because they need it, but because they have the space available and space needs to be filled. Generalizing the law: The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource. The reverse is not true.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:34:48 +0000
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