Assumptions Exercise
Ten Assumptions (front)
By: Duke Rohe drohe@att.net
What are ten things you could say about assumptions?
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Ten Assumptions (back)
1. Assumptions infer a background of obviousness.
Unless this obviousness is obvious to all, misinterpretation is on the way.
2. Assumptions abbreviate the detail of understanding.
They don’t have to re-describe what is already known. They become a tribal language to those hanging around the same tribe.
3. Assumptions are a system of expected outcomes between cause and effect.
What if you had to relearn how to drive every day? You drive in peace today because of the assumptions learned from yesterday.
4. Assumptions create a reality of their own.
They become a truth you to rely on. If not tested, you tend to live in a world of your own.
5. Assumptions are as good as their assurance.
Unless their foundation is revisited, assurance may not be so sure.
6. Assumptions are a personal code.
Troubles start when they are projected on others to follow.
7. Assumptions are the building blocks of how we believe.
If you don’t believe it, trace back the facts that prove why you believe the way you do.
8. Assumptions become presumptuous when we think they think like we think.
And that’s bordering supreme being.
9. Assumption can be an honor when it believes the best.
It’s the essence of optimism.
10. Assumption without validation leads to corruption.
For it is blind to anything that would suggest different.