Fighting Homelessness: Don't Be the Ass in Assuming
Dec 14, 2015Never assuming works well in your personal life, especially in relationships. If something is bothering you, resist drawing conclusions. This should spare you a lot of unnecessary heartache and drama, especially with your partner. Assuming things, will leave you with all kinds of crazy ideas about what your partner is thinking or doing, which will be wrong at least 50 percent of the time. It’s better to just ask.
I have found this same rule also applies in the philanthropic world. Making assumptions that a problem can’t be fixed or tackling a problem with the lack of facts leads to either inaction or the wrong solutions...
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