When few days are left to exam, they read day and night, allocating
time for each chapter and their revision and side by side buying more
books and collecting more notes, in few days they read that much they
haven’t read in entire year. I’m talking about those people who just
read during exam time, if not good marks, they manage to pass the exam.
So why those days become so productive, yes that is emergency to save a
career; apart from those days, what they did just waste of time.
In
other words one year course that a university offers could be completed
in 3 months, and two years course in 6 months; this time is more than
quick-fix exam emergency and lesser than university’s standard time. The
point is what is urgent and planned is done quickly and what is not
urgent and unplanned it grows in complexity, inefficiency and wastage of
resources as the time goes by.
“Work expands to fill the time available for its completion,”
Parkinson’s Law. The thing is to recognize the least amount of time to
do anything efficiently, if you can’t recognize the least amount of
time, make it urgent, ring the bells of emergency, raise hairs and stand
on toes — and then see what happens.
Source: Guru talks