How To Find The Truth In Any Situation, Even In A World Of Lies

I used to dangerously struggle with labeling my assumptions as a fact.

Often, my emotions weren’t far behind, trying to control what I felt was the truth versus the actual truth. It’s an easy mistake, and we all make it.

Our emotions pull us down a hole of one-sided, cloudy thinking and try to keep us there.

In the past, I’d get so caught up in the toxic trap of assuming people’s intent. I have thousands of examples of me trying to convince myself to believe I knew people’s core motivations based on a hunch — an assumption, which is one of the biggest failures in truth-seeking; assuming intentions.

“He did this because of that.”

Or, “She said this because she thinks that.”

People are always trying to project intentions.

Sometimes my assumptions or hunches are correct.

Like, when I felt an employee was exporting all our company data based on specific behaviors I observed.

I drove myself nuts assuming what he was doing and why he was doing it. Finally, after stirring up my emotions, I confronted him.

I walked to his office and asked, “I know you’re exporting company data; where’s the flash drive you’re storing…