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What is the law of meanness
- To study a poem all evening, and in the lesson at the blackboard, understand that from excitement it is impossible to remember a single word;
- put on a snow-white blouse for a date and pour red wine over it;
- prepare a presentation for several weeks and understand that it has not survived on the morning of the pitching;
- leave the house without an umbrella and get caught in a downpour;
- in the end, to miss a sandwich, which will certainly fall to the floor down with butter, jam, sausage.
If in your life, at least once there was a similar fakap (fiasco), you are not rumored to know about the law of meanness. This law has several titles. Most often it is called Murphy’s Law – in honor of Major Edward Murphy.
Back in the last century, he formulated this law in a peculiar way. Once, observing the work of technicians in one of the laboratories, Murphy said: “If something can be done wrong, these people will definitely do it wrong.” Then it turned out that the technicians accidentally installed the parts of the aircraft engine incorrectly, and the propeller began to rotate in the wrong direction.
Subsequently, Murphy’s law received a scientific formulation, which can be found on Wikipedia. But, to put it simply, it turns out: the more you do something, the greater the likelihood of fucking. Therefore, the statement “those who do nothing are not mistaken” can be considered fair.
Murphy’s Law
There is a book called “Murphy’s Law”, which formulates the consequences of this law according to the theory of probability (written with humor). Let’s consider some of them:
- any work takes much more time than you planned;
- everything is not as simple as it seems;
- of all the troubles, exactly the one will happen, the losses from which are the most tangible;
- if the first causes of possible troubles can be eliminated, there will certainly be others;
- some events, which you have already given up on, have a continuation: from a bad option to a worse one;
- when you just start doing something, another thing immediately appears that needs to be done earlier;
- any solution creates new problems.
This may not sound optimistic, and in reality, things are not so bad. First, Murphy’s law and the possible consequences should not be mistaken for postulates.
Secondly, yes, troubles do occur, and no one is immune from fucking – not a person with many years of experience, not a beginner, not a lucky person, not a loser. There is a place in life for cases that you want to dub the law of meanness, and this is normal.
Pauli effect
Close to Murphy’s law is the Pauli effect – a joking term from the physics community. This was preceded by a mythical story. In the city where one experiment was carried out, in the presence of physicist and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli, a complex experimental device stopped working.
The effect itself is manifested in the fact that with some people the experiments go unsuccessfully, and the equipment and devices for some reason break down. Of course, this does not have scientific evidence and is a coincidence, but the playful effect was entrenched in the circle of physicists, and later in the people.
Also, the Pauli effect is consonant with the general’s effect (the effect of presence or demonstration), which consists in the fact that during the demonstration, for example, of the project, everything goes wrong, although no problems were observed during the previous checks.
Example: the microphones worked perfectly in numerous rehearsals, but failed at the concert. The new robot, which during repeated testing did not have any problems with the equipment, suddenly broke down at the presentation …
What to do with the law of meanness
It is impossible to avoid his actions, and you should not panic. To worry less about failures, you need to accept the truth: they happen, you can’t hide from them.
If you experience this law too often, it may be because of your excitement. Sometimes the desire to make everything as perfect as possible and the perfectionist syndrome affect – not the result itself, but rather its perception.
What you consider to be a fiasco is not always a failure: in many cases it is worse than expected.
Psychologists advise not to be afraid to do something wrong, not to complain and learn from your mistakes.
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