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Modern Mentor

233 GID Challenge Your Assumptions

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Management, Careers, Business

4.3726 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2012

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Find more opportunity and better relationships by challenging your own assumptions.

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0:00.0

Steveer Robbins here.

0:04.4

Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:09.1

Assumptions are at the root of how we think.

0:11.6

The right assumptions can lead to happiness, money, power.

0:14.3

Love and joy.

0:15.8

But the wrong assumptions can turn even the most talented people into quivering, resentful piles of jelly

0:20.9

as they find themselves unable to make things work no matter how much they try.

0:25.8

Assumptions are what we believe about the world.

0:28.3

Somewhat intangible things, we more often than not don't question them.

0:32.2

And that's a mistake.

0:33.3

Because we don't question them, if they're wrong, we make decisions we may regret,

0:37.4

or we may decide between the wrong alternatives, or we may decide using the wrong.

0:41.8

Would it surprise you to learn that some of your assumptions are always wrong?

0:46.9

Since no one but me is right all the time, some of your assumptions are in fact always wrong, And today I'd like to challenge you to find

0:54.1

and question some of your assumptions, especially the ones that you've made for years.

0:58.4

It's hard, I know, but it's only if you're willing to look at your world from a new perspective

1:02.7

that you can often reach your goals in ways that are faster and easier than what you're doing

1:06.6

now. Choose a topic that stresses you out where challenging your assumptions might send you

1:11.7

in creative new directions.

1:13.3

Maybe a topic like, how do we make our new web-enabled tissue paper a huge success?

1:18.4

Or, am I in the right major?

1:20.3

Or, how did my teenagers turn out to be such monsters?

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