That’s the whole deal. Last week, among the many school closings, one principal said this: “We’ll never know if we over-reacted, because nothing will happen. We will only know if we did too little.” That’s the point of an overreaction. Overreactions are corrections that go beyond what is perceived to be needed. A normal reaction is assumed to try to match the initial action. Serve and volley. Attack and block. If someone gets angry, we think of trying to manage the energy and de-escalate the anger.
We'll Hopefully Never Know
We'll Hopefully Never Know
We'll Hopefully Never Know
That’s the whole deal. Last week, among the many school closings, one principal said this: “We’ll never know if we over-reacted, because nothing will happen. We will only know if we did too little.” That’s the point of an overreaction. Overreactions are corrections that go beyond what is perceived to be needed. A normal reaction is assumed to try to match the initial action. Serve and volley. Attack and block. If someone gets angry, we think of trying to manage the energy and de-escalate the anger.