If you want to get ahead in the world, you will have to learn overcompensation. This one wrench in the toolbox of your life will get you out of so much trouble you’ll want an entire set of overcompensation wrenches… maybe even a socket set. I find that it helps me most when faced with a situation I am completely clueless in. I have no idea how I got there, how I stay there, how I interact there and whether or not I even want to be there…if I don’t want to be there, I gotta figure out a way to get my tail out of there. Overcompensation covers the ugliness that can be associated with cluelessness.
It’s simple really. Take something you do well, and do it really well. The inspiration and awe generated from the amazement of your audience will generally divert their attention away from the thing you are completely clueless about. Artists do it all the time. Frank DEFINITELY does it all the time. You can’t do what he does and not overcompensate…it’s just the way it is.
The drawback of this is that you may not get better at what you really stink at. That is, if you take that overcompensating tool and have it surgically attached to your being. You do that and that’s the only tool you’ll ever be able to use. Keep the wrench for emergencies only.
This is Bob and I approved this message.
