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Don't make assumptions - Coggle Diagram
Don't make assumptions
Not making assumptions helps us in...
Building trust in our relationships.
Reduces conflict
Improves problem - solving skills
Avoid conflicts.
Improves assertive communication
Promotes personal growth
How can we avoid assumptions? Well...
Check the facts.
Recognize that we are creating a scenario and jumping to a conclusion that is most likely not true.
Communicate assertively.
Ask if something feels off, it doesn't matter how unimportant it feel, its always important.
Some bad escenarios of making assumptions can be (personal experience)
2 years ago, my mom got Covid 19 and she had to isolate herself due medical instructions.
Later on, we found out that she was going through a depression (due the isolation) because she felt rejected by us because of her illness.
Since then, I didn’t have news about her, she didn’t text me (neither my father nor my brother) so I thought she was mad at us and didn’t want to know about us.
Making assumptions can...
Leads to misunderstandings, personal offense, and unnecessary drama.
we risk creating problems where there were none to begin with.
Limit us from doing or speaking things that we underestimate due our lack of information.