Learning about the world eternal learner, endless dreamer

ekjohnston:

truefactsaboutlies:

one of the best tips for Real Life that I’ve ever picked up is to always highball your estimate whenever someone asks you “when can you get this done by” by about 25% (if you can get away with it). that way, if it ends up being harder than you thought, you’ve got extra time to figure things out and if you were right about how much time it takes then you get to look like an absolute genius instead of just a simply competent person.

what you may not have realized is that I learned this crucial piece of life advice from an episode of Star Trek where Scotty is telling Geordi that whenever he told Kirk something on the Enterprise was at full capacity, it was always only ever a notch or so below full capacity so that Scotty looked like the god of all engineers when he was able to magically hack the warp drive to run a little beyond what he’d told everyone else was “full capacity” and honestly that one throwaway gag from Star Trek has changed my life.

I have absolutely used The Scotty Manoeuver in real life. 10/10, would recommend.

#YOU SEE IVE ALWAYS KNOWN SCOTTY WAS MY FAVORITE STAR TREK CHARACTER AND THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY #life tips #important
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