In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.
When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you've developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.