Tag: assumptions

  • I’m always surprised when I assume the best intentions and I’m correct. Usually reality lies in between assuming the best and assuming the worst.

  • Presumption, however well intentioned, is a frequent spawner of pain.

  • When someone grates on me I try to run the following thought experiment: “If I assumed this person really wanted to help me but were super bad at it, what would I do?“

  • It’s the small things piling together that build my anxiety, no one thing I can point at and try to solve.

  • If you do not say you are assume a thing, it is easy for that assumption to stand ever unchallenged.

  • I’ve been on both sides of that – expecting someone to be a jerk and assuming jerkiness in their words, and having the worst assumed of me. Unresolved conflict and defensiveness are usually at the bottom of such a situation.

  • I learn best by doing, doing a thing while watching a youtube video on how to do the thing is amazing. I have a base assumption that most things aren’t that hard–there are things that require many years of experience to reach mastery, or require a large knowledge base to be able to execute on. […]