History is filled with errors made due to miscommunications that resulted in significant damage and death. Much of which may have been avoided altogether.
The simple solution requires clarification, confirmation, and proper communication—a process of a few steps, little added time, yet vastly superior outcomes.
What you think or believe you heard may not be the actual intention. Yet, we assume, create false realities, draw our conclusions and grant ourselves license to make our fiction far removed from reality.
If our goal is to attain positive outcomes, achieve harmony and use time efficiently, confirmation and clarification should outplay assumption and imagination. Of course, we would hope that we are never misunderstood, yet worse is when armed with knowledge and capacity, we are the ones who misunderstand.
