There was a fatal accident in town — a situation where the vehicle went off onto the shoulder and the driver overcorrected, causing him to cross lanes and hit the other driver head-on. It’s a natural impulse to jerk left after you’ve gone far right, and while it is fortunately not always fatal, overcorrection is almost always undesirable.
Overcorrection can look like this:
- If you give up meat and become an evangelist for vegetarian living
- If you champion one view on a topic and can no longer listen to different perspectives
- If you establish a savings goal and become a selfish miser
- If you earn a new degree or promotion and lord it over people
- If you commit to lose weight and become obsessive about fitness training
- If you master the use of Teams or Slack and no longer communicate face to face
Many cars today have lane-keeping-assist systems that alert you when you’re heading off the road onto the shoulders. Implore your trusted advisors to serve in that capacity and give you warnings when you are at risk of veering to the extremes. A slight modification is easier to recover from than a drastic overcorrection.
