The Secret Key to Beating Procrastination With Parkinson’s Law
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Remember in school when you were given a month to write a paper and you put it off and then wrote it in a day? If you’re someone who’s all about getting stuff done, then you’ve probably heard of Parkinson’s Law, but if not then you’re probably more like the procrastinator I mentioned above. Parkinson’s law is a saying that goes a little something like this: work expands to fill the period of time available for its completion.
Now, this here interesting statement was made by Cyril Northcote Parkinson, a British historian and author, way back in 1955 (not to be confused with James Parkinson the English Physician who discovered Parkinson’s disease in 1817). He started off with this one liner in an article for The Economist, and later wrote a whole book about it, called Parkinson’s Law: The Pursuit of Progress.
You see, Parkinson knew a thing or two about workin’ hard. He spent his time workin’ in the British Civil Service and saw how bureaucracy can really slow things down. And let’s be honest, bureaucracy is just a fancy word for a whole lotta red tape and unnecessary rules.
But the real kicker is that we, as a culture, have this strange idea that working harder is somehow better than…
