10 Reasons Why Lag is an Advantage

December 9th, 2009 admin

Imagine that you’re driving a car and want to make a right-hand turn. You turn the steering wheel – but nothing happens. The car keeps on traveling straight ahead for another 100 yards or so before it slowly begins to veer off to the right. That doesn’t sound like a safe car, does it? And it would be a stressful experience, because we are used getting to an instant response to a change of direction. It’s the same whenever we start something new. We want immediate results when we start something new. But life isn’t like that. When we start something new, we bump up against the principle of lag. This means that there is a period…


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