Never do today what can be put off until tomorrow.
This reminds me of the paradox story of the teacher that told his students that he would give an unexpected test the following week.
The students realized that the test could not happen on Friday, because if it did it would not be unexpected. If it didn’t happen on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, then it would have to happen on Friday and therefore be expected.
With Friday out of the way, they used similar reasoning to eliminate Thursday and so on back to Monday. The conclusion was that no matter when the teacher gave the test, it would be expected and therefore the test could not happen since he said it would be unexpected.
So whenever the teacher did give the test, it was unexpected.
With this kind of reasoning, half the class went on to become Congressmen.
Never do today what can be put off until tomorrow.
This reminds me of the paradox story of the teacher that told his students that he would give an unexpected test the following week.
The students realized that the test could not happen on Friday, because if it did it would not be unexpected. If it didn’t happen on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, then it would have to happen on Friday and therefore be expected.
With Friday out of the way, they used similar reasoning to eliminate Thursday and so on back to Monday. The conclusion was that no matter when the teacher gave the test, it would be expected and therefore the test could not happen since he said it would be unexpected.
So whenever the teacher did give the test, it was unexpected.
With this kind of reasoning, half the class went on to become Congressmen.