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Life Lessons #3 - Don’t Make Assumptions
12 years ago
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Life Lessons #3 Don’t Make Assumptions
The flip side of not taking anything personally is to not assume you know what’s going on in other people’s heads, to not assume you know the motivations for their actions. Just as their reality doesn’t reflect your reality, your life is not theirs. Give people the benefit of the doubt.
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Not making assumptions is hard, we all do it, including myself. It is hard to pull back sometimes and put yourselves in someones shoes, to understand what is happening in their life, at that time. The best policy is to give people the benefit of the doubt, to err on the side of positive thinking. Attempt to always remain positive.
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Over 43 days I will be reposting, and adding my thoughts to this blog post from J.D. Roth
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2.....from-43-years/
The flip side of not taking anything personally is to not assume you know what’s going on in other people’s heads, to not assume you know the motivations for their actions. Just as their reality doesn’t reflect your reality, your life is not theirs. Give people the benefit of the doubt.
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Not making assumptions is hard, we all do it, including myself. It is hard to pull back sometimes and put yourselves in someones shoes, to understand what is happening in their life, at that time. The best policy is to give people the benefit of the doubt, to err on the side of positive thinking. Attempt to always remain positive.
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Over 43 days I will be reposting, and adding my thoughts to this blog post from J.D. Roth
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2.....from-43-years/
tornado
~tornado
I remember when I assumed I would hate whiskey... Turns out I hate whiskey.
Karcenogen
~karcenogen
whiskey
Sleekshadow
~sleekshadow
Ditto
Kieryn
~kieryn
Often assumptions are based on the results of past experiences which are entirely unique to each person, so it's near impossible to fully understand how someone else thinks or will truly do as no lives are identical. As you say, trying to find the positive side is good, but so is trying to manage the emotional response that rides alongside those assumptions. :D
