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.
5
10 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
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.
“
The idea is part of this collection:
Learn more about books with this collection
The benefits of a bedtime routine
How to improve your sleep quality
How to create a relaxing sleep environment
Related collections
Similar ideas to Manage Your Work In Given Time(ore Work In Less Time)
Procrastination Paradox
The more time we are given to complete a task, the longer we will take to do it.
This is similar to Parkinson’s Law, which states that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
We often procrastinate if we do not set deadlines, especially if t...
Set Time Constraints
Set deadlines even when you don’t need to. Schedule less time to complete tasks and force your brain to focus.
Parkinson’s law states: “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”. So, if you reduce the time you have to complete a task, you force your ...
Set an ending time for tasks
Parkinson’s second law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Setting a micro deadline for daily tasks holds your brain accountable to the tick of the clock.
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates