Overcorrection isn't always a bad thing.

Neglect isn’t easily undone. And extremes are particularly effective at pulling the boat back in the other direction.

To move a heavy object, you have to apply the most force right at the beginning to initiate movement and create momentum. That initial resistance is called inertia.

Inertia says that objects at rest tend to stay at rest and objects in motion tend to stay in motion unless acted upon by a force.

The larger the object is, the more force is needed to overcome its inertia and get it moving or change its direction.

This is where overcorrection comes in.

Politics are overcorrections. If we only had one or the other, our country would be worse off.

Why? Because we need the back and forth, the push and pull, the checks and balances.

Balance isn’t found by landing in the middle between the extremes. It’s found in the midst of the swinging back and forth past it.

Culture pushes back, though, because we love stasis.

Stasis is the condition of equilibrium – where everything is stable and predictable.

But stasis is stagnant. And stagnancy breeds disease.

When the world sees someone being extreme, it recoils and attempts to pull them back to safety.

The world always tries to pull things back to complacency because stasis is safe.

But if you’re stuck, please…by all means…overcorrect.

Be unapologetically extreme and intentional in your focus and intensity on what needs to move.

And be okay with people looking at you funny.

Because it might be the only option to get you unstuck.