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These Shoes Are Killing Me! (Ep. 296 Rebroadcast)

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Why Do We Overcorrect?

Many n ba players regularly get peticures? Ninety per cent of em. Have you ever had people come to you who want their foot surgically altered so that they will fit the fashionable shoes they want to wear better? Once a week. There's a theory i've been kicking around. Not really a theory, more like a idea. Eh, barely an idea. Let's call it an observation. The observation is this, very often, when we see something that needs improvement, that needs correction, we respond with an over correction. That's my observation, at least. You don't have to agree. But telling you this because i believe one over correction we've made has

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