25 laws of life that explain a lot

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Some strange things that happen to you are in fact natural.

Does the neighboring queue always move faster, and clothes that have not been used for years become urgently needed only after they are in the trash can? These and many other situations, which almost everyone faced, formed the basis of the laws of life.

1. Murphy's law

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

According to this principle, if something bad can happen, then it will definitely happen. In this case, of the possible unpleasant situations, the worst will happen.

2. Meskimen's law

There is never enough time to do a job well. But it is always there to redo everything.

And it happens. Until the last moment, we postpone an important matter, then we cope with it somehow and spend much more on rework.

3. Po law

Without a smiling emoticon or any other obvious sign of humor, it is impossible to joke on sensitive topics without at least someone taking it seriously.

Any joke or parody on a sensitive topic will certainly be perceived by someone as a true statement.

4. Observation of Ettore

The neighboring queue always moves faster.

Even if there are five people in it with full carts, and in yours there are only two with a bottle of water and a pack of pasta. Either the cash register breaks down, or one of them begins to count out a small change in ruble.

5. Hlaid's law

Give a difficult task to a lazy employee. He will find the easiest way to solve it.

He will simply be too lazy to complicate his work.

6. Law of search

You need to start your search from the most inappropriate place.

If you don't expect to find scissors in your laundry basket, they might be there.

7. Hanlon's Razor

Never use malice to explain something that can easily be explained by stupidity.

First, look for the reason in human mistakes and only then think that the person did something on purpose, out of unkind motives.

8. Pareto's law

20% of the efforts give 80% of the result, the remaining 80% of the efforts - only 20% of the result.

The ratio of effort and result is unequal: 20% of customers bring 80% of the company's profits, and 80% of the time spent on current tasks will bring only 20% of the benefits. And so in any area of life.

9. Parkinson's law

The work fills the time allotted for it.

You can complete a task in one day, but you have set aside a week for it. And you will work on it for a week.

10. Lerman's law

Any technical problem can be solved if there is enough time and money.

Lerman's corollary: you will always run out of time or money.

11. Sturgeon's revelation

90% of anything is bullshit.

If you're told that 90% of your thesis is bullshit, remember that this isn't just about your writing.

12. Peter's principle

Competent employees, as they climb the career ladder, reach their level of incompetence.

According to this principle, sooner or later a person will find himself in a position that he cannot cope with.

13. Gumperson's Law

The likelihood of achieving the desired result is inversely proportional to the strength of desire.

When you are late for work, you find yourself in a traffic jam, buses break down, and you have to walk. But if you decide to take a walk, these buses will pass you one by one.

14. Finagle's Fourth Law

If the work goes wrong, then any attempt to save the situation will only make it worse.

Sometimes the best is the enemy of the good.

15. The third law of Chisholm

People understand proposals differently from the person who makes them.

Even if you express a thought clearly and clearly, someone will interpret it in their own way.

16. Axiom of Kahn and Orben

If all else fails, read the instructions.

For some reason, they remember her too late.

17. Old and Kahn's law

The effectiveness of the meeting decreases in proportion to the increase in the number of participants and the time spent on it.

Prolonged meetings with a large number of discussants often lead to nothing.

18. Hendrickson's Law

If a problem requires multiple meetings, they will eventually become more important than the problem itself.

And, perhaps, it will not be solved.

19. Law of writing

As soon as you seal the envelope or drop the letter in the mailbox, an important thought will immediately come to your mind.

In the case of emails, of course, everything is simpler. You can send the second one next - it won't take long.

20. McMahon's rule

It doesn't matter what exactly you are looking for on the internet. At least one porn site will match your search criteria.

Ok Google.

21. Career Law for Women

Think like a man, act like a lady, work like a horse.

And then maybe everything will work out.

22. First law of adjustment

Information, which involves reworking the project, will come to the author only when all the drawings have already been completed.

An important part of the work has already been done, but who cares? Except for you, who wasted a lot of time on this.

23. The law of selective gravitation

If you drop something, it will fall so as to cause as much damage as possible.

Or it will roll into the farthest corner, from where it is almost impossible to get it.

24. Zimergi Voluntary Labor Law

A person always agrees to take up work when it is no longer necessary.

Because, most likely, he will not have to do anything.

25. Richard's rule of interdependence

Anything that you store for a long time can be thrown away. But once you throw it away, you need it.

Maybe that is why we are afraid to disassemble the closet and get rid of unnecessary things. What if they come in handy?