Codie Sanchez describes how Elon Musk forced an engineering problem fixed in 24 hours that his team said would take six months to a year. He turned the plane around and stayed on site until it was done. The lesson: compress your timelines deliberately to beat Parkinson's Law.
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There's a story about Elon Musk that explains why he's so rich and how to get ahead of 99% of people. He was in his plane with a group of engineers struggling with a huge problem. They basically had a change that they needed to make asap. His engineers said it would take six months to a year to do it. So what did he do? He used the force function formula. He told the pilot to turn around the plane and said he and his engineers would stay on site until it was fixed. They fixed the problem in 24 hours. We need to do this more. Where in your life are you doing Parkinson's Law, which says a problem expands to the time we give it. So ask yourself, how do we make things go faster? That's how you get ahead of 99% of people.