Knagg's Derivative of Murphy's Law

 The more complicated and grandiose the plan, the greater the chance of failure. 

I've got a pair of very old books about Murphy's Laws and similar other laws that were gathered up and published by Arthur Bloch, and that's where I've gotten a few ideas for posts. That's where I found this one. Normally, I can just google the law and find other sources for things, but this time apparently not. Again, normally, the lack of sources I can give you would usually have me deleting this post and finding something else to do, but I think I want to leave this one for today even if I don't have sources to back it up. 

In some ways, I want to post this because everyone runs around with these giant plans that they want to make the world a better place by doing this big changes, but it doesn't work like that. They might be better off working on a thousand tiny steps rather than one giant leap, because then the change is more likely to stick and remain even if there are problems with other steps. It's easier to keep working on something if you fail at a small step than a big swing. Or, at least, that's what I think. I do understand why people want some giant leaps, but sometimes taking the big leap and failing can make things harder than starting with the small steps. 

That's all rather complicated and depends on the person and situation though, so I know there will be people who object or situations where the opposite is true. I've just been listening to politicians a bit lately and it drives me nuts when they make giant promises that I know they can't keep. 

I hope that this proves helpful to you somehow, and that it's ok that I am pushing personal philosophy instead of just pure science today. I have plans to put most of my personal opinions elsewhere, but that's going to have to wait a bit longer and I thought this one would be ok here for now at least. Let me know what you think, and feel free to look it up to see if you can find out more about this law or anything else.