Challenging Assumptions

Continuing our journey through the concepts of perspective and perception, I wanted to stop to talk about how we can challenge our assumptions. In today's episode, I pose the questions of what are assumptions and where they come from to better help us get the ultimate space of actually challenging them through the lens of curiosity. Enjoy! References: The Way Things Are: How Our Assumptions Get in Our Way The late Chris Argyris – management guru, ‘father of organizational learning’ and professor at Harvard Business School – illuminated the “invisible process” that formulates our thoughts and leads to decisions. He created a mind map illustrating how we think, known as the Ladder of Inference. How the Brain Saves Energy: The Neural Thermostat