Aug 27
2018
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Opinions Are Not FactsPosted by Steve Marr in Untagged |
While opinions are sometimes true, they are false about as many times. One day I may be right about something, but the next day I could be wrong.
Once when I was driving on the highway, there was a truck going 35 in a 55 mile an hour zone. I started to grumble at the truck for driving so slowly. When I had an opportunity to pass, I could see that the problem was a car in front of the truck traveling at the low rate of speed. I had allowed my opinion to become fact. The truck didn’t cause the slow traffic; it was the result of a slow car I could not see.
We tend to be quick to treat our opinions as facts. That’s why I've learned to use a lot of clarifying questions when working with clients. I will ask, “Why do you think that?” or “Do you have specific information to support your thinking?”