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1 Mistake Most People Make That Causes A Life Of Drama (Until They Do This)
People make assumptions about everything.
Assumptions alone aren’t evil. It’s when we make assumptions about what others are thinking or doing and believe the assumptions to be true. Our habit is to then blame the other person and react with verbal and emotional poison.
Whenever you assume you’re looking for trouble.
Your assumptions cause unnecessary pain.
In the book The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz says, “all the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in making assumptions and taking things personally.”
The poison of assumptions spread fast. People begin to gossip about their assumptions without ever knowing what the absolute truth is. “Because we are afraid to ask for clarification, we make assumptions, and believe we are right about the assumptions; then we defend our assumptions and try to make someone else wrong.”
Our minds love to create chaos which “causes us to misinterpret everything and misunderstand everything.”
“We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear.” Once we’ve labeled something in our mind, our mind, fueled by our emotions, sticks to it. We hold onto our assumptions to protect…