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productivity
The complexity of a task makes you procrastinate less.
Parkinson's Law of Triviality states that the time spent on any item of an agenda is in inverse proportion to the amount of money involved.
The law describes observed behavior in meetings—where committees focus on trivial, inexpensive items everyone understands—rather than an internal brain process regarding the difficulty of a task.
You are working hardest on the things that matter the least.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1957) on the Law of Triviality
- What the check found
- The claim misidentifies the mechanism of the Law of Triviality by reframing it as a psychological observation about task conceptualization rather than a satirical rule about committee meeting dynamics.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
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