When a slap fixes everything

Did you ever fix a radio or TV by hitting it hard with your palm? It was one inexplicably effective (and therefore intriguing) solution I observed as a kid.

Till today, I can’t give a technical explanation. Maybe it was vibrations shaking things back into place. Loose batteries, misaligned wires? I can’t say for sure. But gbam! and it’s back to work like it never stopped.

These days, I’m realizing I’ve been a lot like those radios myself, shaking myself back into alignment by changing something suddenly.

Maybe I start a week super productive, lose my flow by Wednesday, spend Thursday feeling bad and wondering what’s wrong. Then Friday morning, I go on an unusually long run. And when I return, I’m back.

Gbam! Hard reset.