Testing, testing…

I hadn’t heard of Cunningham’s Law until a young man stopped by my recent book-signing event.  He liked that I cite several “laws” in my book, The Peace and Power of a Positive Perspective©.  He asked if Cunningham’s was in there.  (It isn’t).  My visitor shared this perspective: 

People are more willing to correct you than to help you. 

                   Ram 

As a test, let me ask you if you’ve heard of Cunningham’s Law?  Here’s my answer: 

Cunningham said the best way to get a right answer on the Internet is to simply post a question. 

What do you think; did I pass the test on the meaning of his law?  Did you?  Back to you in a minute… 

I like these types of laws so much that I titled the second chapter of my book, “Laws, Proverbs & Malarkey”.  Murphy’s Law is in there, of course.  One of my favorite sources is Augustine’s Laws© by Norman R. Augustine.  He is a U.S. aerospace businessman who was Chairman and CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corporation.  His firm did a lot of business with the US Government.  That, of course, gave him plenty of fodder for fun: 

Law Number XXXVII: 

Ninety percent of the time things will turn out worse than you expect.  The other 10 percent of the time you had no right to expect so much.                            

Norman R. Augustine 

Sounds like today’s elections, yes?  But I digress… 

I also enjoy quizzes, tests, riddles, and such.  Like this little ditty devoted to lateral thinking found on page 130 of my book: 

Place 9 pigs in the 8 pens (below). No pen can have more than 1 pig placed in it; no pig can be left out of the pens.  The configuration of the pens cannot be changed. Your design of the pigs is not important.

OK back to you, Cunningham, and today’s test.  I wonder how many of you passed?  Did you reply to this post with the correct version of Cunningham’s Law to correct me?  What I stated above is the wrong answer - just like Cunningham posited.  Oh, and if you give me your answer to the 9 pigs in 8 pens I'll be ready to correct you HaHa!

Hmmm, posting wrong answers on the Internet to get to the right answer…  I guess we’re all being tested. 

                                                            GAP 

When life gets tough we could get a helmet… or… we could leverage the peace and share the power of a positive perspective.