If you’ve ever planned something really important in your life, you’ve probably encountered the fact that everything went wrong. Murphy’s Law, or the law of bad luck, was first articulated by US Air Force Captain Edward A. Murphy. In 1949, he served as an expert in accident investigation at Edwards Air Force Base.
As eyewitnesses say, one fine day, six aviation engineers managed to assemble an aircraft engine in such a way that the propeller blades miraculously started rotating in the opposite direction. Seeing this horror, the shocked Mr. Murphy uttered his famous phrase: “If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those results in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way.”
After some time, writer Arthur Bloch, inspired by the captain’s monologues, decided to publish the famous collection “Murphy’s Laws,” which has long become a handbook for any project manager or crisis manager. We at AdmiGram.com decided that it would not be superfluous to remind the most important conclusions arising from the famous Murphy’s laws.
20 laws of bad luck that work flawlessly
- A true specialist is a person who does not make minor mistakes but makes grandiose blunders.
- If it’s stupid but it works, it’s not stupid.
- Eight people handle the work of ten better than twelve.
- The effectiveness of a meeting is inversely proportional to the number of participants and the time spent.
- If something seems easy to do, it’s definitely going to be hard. And if it looks hard, it’s absolutely impossible to accomplish.
- If something works on the first try, something is wrong here.
- If you think the situation is improving, it means you just don’t know about something else yet.
- Of two mutually exclusive unpleasant outcomes, the one that causes the most damage will occur.
- When things are going really well, something must inevitably go wrong in the very near future.
- The free parking space is always on the opposite side of the street.
- If you drop something, it will roll into the most inaccessible corner.
- Anything that starts well ends badly. Anything that starts badly ends even worse.
- Any error in any calculation will be aimed at causing the greatest damage.
- All deadlines should be multiplied by a factor of 2.0.
- Nothing is ever built on time, and within budget.
- What you need is never there, but when you don’t need it, there’s plenty of it.
