Cyril Northcote Parkinson’s Law should be familiar to anyone who’s ever been assigned a minor task and a long weekend to get it done— “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Cyril Northcote Parkinson’s Law”
Grant, we were talking earlier about eponymous laws.
And one that I really like is the one from Cyril Northcutt Parkinson.
Parkinson’s Law, which is work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Yeah, and the corollary, which is your stuff expands and contracts to fill the space available too, right?
Oh, yeah, your stuff, your personal possessions.
You can have like a wallet and it will just suddenly fill a room.
I don’t know how that works.
I thought you meant the stock Sanford corollary to Parkinson’s Law,
Which is if you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do.
That is true.
I can vouch for that one.
I think you found your life’s T-shirt.
Outstanding.
We know there’s a bunch of these out there, these eponymous laws.
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