Overcorrecting

Whether you’re driving a car, flying a plane, hitting a golf ball, shooting a basketball, one of the worst things you can do as you’re finding your aim, is to overcorrect. If you’re aim is off slightly in one direction and you miss your mark, the natural tendency is to overcorrect in the opposite direction and miss the mark again. What makes people like Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, Steph Curry, Rembrandt, such great skilled artists, is their ability to make subtle, nuanced corrections after a miss, so they can hit their mark on their next attempt – that is where their artistry is, where their true craft lies. The quarterbacks, the golfers, the three-point shooters, the pitchers, the painters who continually fail, are constantly overcorrecting after their mistakes because they do not understand the importance of nuance and subtlety in their craft.

We no longer live in a society of nuance or subtlety. Everything is completely over the top. We see this in our politics where every issue is taken to the extreme, and the opposition is always painted as the most-evil version of themselves. And in a world of that much extreme and excess there is no room for common ground; there is no room for common decency.

In the wake of the FBIs over the top raid on Mar-a-Lago, and after the FBI’s abuse of FISA warrants to illegally spy of US citizens and a Presidential candidate, and after the convictions of citizens involved in an FBI created plot to assassinate Gretchen Whitmer, many people have been calling to disband the FBI, arguing that the FBI has become too big, too powerful, too politicized and too corrupt to continue to exist. And those feelings are understandable, and even justified because nobody wants to live in a country where law enforcement is weaponized against political opponents.