Over Compensation

No, I'm not talking about pay rate (though none of us gets paid enough, right?). What I am talking about I'll explain in an illustration.

I am a jogger (some of you know). Sometimes I pull a muscle in my right leg and so I over compensate with my left. I exert pressure. I put more weight on it. What ends up happening is I mess up my left leg, too, along with my right. Now I can't run at all.

And I guess the over compensating point I'm really wanting to make here has to do with when things go wrong.

When things go wrong, we begin to do things to fix the wrong. Right? (I always like doing that.) We begin to make corrections. (At least in our mind they're corrections.) We begin to try to solve the problem. The problem with that is it's so easy to over compensate ~ where we begin to do things that are exerting more pressure in areas that weren't built to withstand that kind of pressure (like my left leg above).

The outflow is we may end up not only NOT fixing the wrong, but creating a whole new and bigger problem.

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