Murphy’s Law

It is an adage that says that “Anything that you fear, the more it will happen”. Murphy’s Law highlights into our tendency to keep pondering on the negative and overlook the positive. Murphy’s Law is a very hopeful law, which basically states that if anything must go wrong, it will. This is the basic hypothesis of Murphy’s Law. Captain Edward Murphy lived in the United States until his death in 1990. Captain Edward A. Murphy was an engineer in the Air Force. Although he took part in other engineering design tests throughout both his military and civilian careers, it was one test that he attended almost as a fluke that gave rise to Murphy’s Law. Murphy hooked up his sensors to the harness produced a reading of zero – all the sensors had been connected incorrectly. For each sensor, there were two ways of connecting them, and each one was installed the wrong way…

In other words, Murphy’s law states that nothing is as easy as it looks. Problems need to be tackled with proper study and explanation. Everything takes longer than we think. It’s not a pessimistic law. It is a guarded law.

Gilbert Law

No one will tell you what to do and how to do it perfectly, but you must learn to do that. The initial phases of your career are crucial. How you present yourself in the first few years of your work life is important lesson for rest of your life. It is the foundation of your career. The fact is, everyone messes up some time or the other. It is better to own up your mistakes, apologise and learn from what you’ve done. There is a good possibility you won’t make the same mistake again.

Wilson Law

If you always give importance to information and intelligence, money keeps coming in. Some people experience windfalls always, they experience free flow of money. That’s because they keep updating themselves in their chosen careers. They keep improving their thinking ability and executing methods. They improvise their execution and can solve any complicated issues. It is known as Wilson’s law. It states that when a person can forecast their intelligence and information, they have a free flow of money in their lives.

Kidlin Law

If you can write the problem down clearly then the matter is half solved. This is the best law of all. The statement is clearly illustrated and allows a person to concentrate on understanding the problem before solving it. Writing your problem in detail helps in problem-solving. The writing activity makes us conscious about the way we conceptualize. Self-consciousness about the way we solve problems leads us to more effective conceptualization and, finally, becomes a strategy for solving problems. Many researchers have proved that writing activities generate several intellectual, physiological, and emotional benefits to individuals. These benefits include improve memory function, decreased illness, and greater feelings of happiness.

Falkland Law

When there is no need to make decision, don’t make it. Save your energy and brain for something better. You must keep telling yourself repetitively that even though you can be of help to people sometimes, they must be left on their own to deal with their problems so that they can overcome and learn by themselves. We can at times worsen a problem by trying to help others by giving them advise without knowing the nitty-gritties of an issue. Often, we waste our precious time, by thinking about problems which don’t exist, often we waste time in decision making of problems which can be solved at the right time. Making Untimely Decisions can lead to decision paralysis. After all, why make a choice now, if a better option may become available tomorrow. We use unconscious practices to cope with the difficulty inherent in most untimely decisions in life.