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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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.
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