“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” Since then, Parkinson’s law has become the best-known explanation for why we can take three months to write a twenty-page essay or miraculously finish it in just one day. The problem with Parkinson’s law is that most of the time it works against us. Giving yourself three months to

Parkinson’s Law states that work contracts or expands to fill the time you allot for it.

Parkinson’s Law — “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”