The Goldilock’s Law of the Inverted U-Curve

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It’s not rocket science by any stretch. It’s a concept that is simple. In many situations, after a certain point raising the magnitude or intensity of a particular factor results in a negative decrease in the overall effect. But before the stage, the increase corresponds to a positive growth in overall effect.

For example:
Increasing the confidence of someone with low self-confidence produces a positive effect.
Increasing the confidence to somebody with lots of present self-confidence creates the negative effect of over confidence.

Take in Too Little calories and you are skinny. Take in Much and you get fat. There’s a Just-Right amount of caloric intake that helps you keep your ideal weight.

There are a lot of examples of this Goldilocks Law which it is helpful to think of an example of what does not fall under the Law.

Judgment and decision making skill and ability, you really can’t get too much of that. To put it differently, people with seemingly opposing viewpoints may actually agree on the fundamental idea. But they may disagree on whether a certain (known, perceived, imagined) amount of that concept is actually positive or negative.