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Parkinson's Law : Or the Pursuit of Progress Summary
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Work expands
to the time
Allowed for it
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON
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The Law
Work EXPANDS to the time allowed for it.
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🤔 Writing a letter
If you a have task of writing a letter and complete it by this week, you will most probably spend one day to to get best pen, then one day for the best paper, then one day for finding out best vocabulary, then one day to review and rewriting it.
Or if you have only 5 minutes for it, you will just find a piece of paper, a working pen and you start writing the main purpose on the letter. That's it.
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This idea is important to manage your work in given time limit, i have seen many people who say that i have very less time to complete this task.so, give time according to your work.
Manage Your Work In Given Time(ore Work In Less Time)
Parkinson’s Law—the amount of work expands to fill the time available for its completion
means that if you give yourself a week to complete a two-hour task, then (psychologically speaking) the task will increase in complexity and become more daunting so as to fill that week.
Example
if someone is given a week to complete a task should really only take them a day to finish, they will often end up unnecessarily stretching out the task, so that it will take them the whole week to complete it.
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