IS CLOSE ENOUGH GOOD ENOUGH.

Phew, that was close I hear you say.

This post serves as a precursor to my next post, I pose a question here that I want us to think about and form an opinion, so that it influences what we read in the next post.

I have a decent understanding of how our brains treat information, if I include this as the first paragraph of an article, it will be read and then ignored as we hunt down what we think is the “Meat” of the post.

This is just how our brain works.

I would like us to establish a self-evaluation Metric?

Q. What parameters need to be met for us to think that something is CORRECT?

Dictionaries come up with things such as accurate, exact, free from error, ‘in accordance with fact or truth’.  In short, for something to be correct, it needs to be 100%.

To be expected, if we talk about something as being Incorrect, the opposite is true, and the dictionary brings in such words as mistaken, wrong, in error, erroneous, and ‘not in accordance with particular standards or rules’.

If an action or idea is 1% incorrect it is not correct. DUH!

This leads to the counterintuitive statement that being 99% right is the same as being 100% wrong; it is not CORRECT.

Think about that for a moment, where do you stand on this?

This is a self-evaluation, I have no investment in your choice.

Q. Why is this even important?

A. Because it shows us how we measure things.

At the centre of any system, there is something, a component, a concept, a “fundamental particle” that influences and impacts the whole system to such an extent that being less than 100% negatively impacts EVERYTHING upstream.

It may not break the system, but it makes it impossible for the system to reach optimum operational status.

The next post will be on and around Wing Chun as a system, do we know what the “FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE” of Wing Chun is?

There is an old joke about a guy who is walking down the street when a roofing slate slides off and falls downward, he dodged at the last moment and it missed sticking in his shoulder by 10cm.

Phew that was close I hear you say.

Unfortunately, it hit him in the head and killed him.

When it is a close call Metrics matter.