The more you are afraid of what will happen, the more it will happen. What is this law?

Murphy's law.

Murphy's Law has four main contents:

1. Nothing is as simple as it seems;

2. Everything will take longer than you expected;

3. Things that can go wrong will always go wrong;

4. If you are worried about something happening, it is more likely to happen.

The fundamental content of Murphy's Law is that "everything that can go wrong has a high probability of going wrong", which means that as long as any event has a probability greater than zero, it cannot be assumed that it will not happen.

Extended information:

"Murphy's Law", "Parkinson's Law" and "Peter's Principle" are called the three major discoveries of western culture in the 2th century.

1. Murphy's Law is a psychological effect, which was put forward by Edward A. Murphy, also known as Murphy's Law and Murphy's Theorem. If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of them will lead to disaster, then someone will make this choice.

2. Parkinson's Law is another name for bureaucracy or bureaucratic phenomenon, which is called one of the three major discoveries of western culture in the 2th century. It can also be called "officialdom disease", "organizational paralysis disease" or "big business disease", which originated from the title of the book Parkinson's Law published by the famous British historian Northgood Parkinson in 1958.

3. Peter's Principles. Lawrence Peter's works. He clearly described the bottleneck of career promotion for us, and pointed out that everyone will be promoted in hierarchical organizations until they are incompetent.

In other words, no matter how smart you are, no matter how hard you work, there will always be a position waiting for you that you are not qualified for, and you will definitely reach that position. This is the famous Peter principle.

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