I haven't heard before about Parkinson's law but I have been in that kind of situations before, sometimes we need to be pushed to really discover how efficient we can be
I'm doing a series of post touching the same topic (Success in steemit and life) I would like you to visit it and maybe throw me some feedback

This is one of the latest post of the series
https://steemit.com/writing/@manuelmendez/do-you-want-to-be-ready-for-failure-or-do-you-want-to-be-ready-for-success-or-succeed-in-steemit-and-in-life-day-3-out-of-8