Our minds have a strong natural tendency to assumption, that is, to elaborate a response to a current situation from incomplete hints – drawing upon our past.
Assumption is same as projection
For instance, your partner is quietly chuckling at a text message. They don’t offer to share it with you. They quickly send a reply.
You start to feel very angry. It looks like your partner is having an affair.
"They have just received a message from their lover reminding them of some very intimate joke (which might even be about you and your failings)", you eagerly responds.
They don’t love you. You are abandoned, betrayed. You are now very angry with you partner; you feel victimised.
But actually, nothing like this is really going on at all. The message was from a colleague at work.
In fact, the distress you felt derived from when you were at school: you discovered that the person you thought was your best friend was actually saying mean things about to others. You are still wounded by this, though you hate to admit it.
Assumption is always about telling ourselves a story in answer to the question: what did that really mean?
Assumption is the lowest form of knowledge.
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