Strange but logical

Actions that do not make sense at first can still work if they are based on logic, not politics.

WHEN I was still a young student, I once had the opportunity to learn how to ski. Not being an athletic person, it was not easy for me to deal with the cold, the equipment and, most of all, the strange things I had to get the hang of to go down a slope safely. One of the most difficult was to accept that if I wanted to turn in one direction, I had to shift my body weight to the opposite direction. To turn left, I had to lean right and somehow the physics of that action gets my skis to move where I want them to. To me, it was totally counterintuitive and didn’t make sense. But it worked.

Counterintuitive actions often work because although they seem strange to the bystander, there is a logical basis underlying them. That logic may not be obvious at first but repeated actions make them clearer and more understandable. But if they don’t work, then their justification becomes questionable.