Jumping to Conclusion
How often have we witnessed or actually endured or experienced Jumping to Conclusions on a first-hand basis ? Surely, we can't count the numerous times people [and that includes me in the past] will jump prematurely to their own conclusion, more often, faster than the speed lightning strikes. And the most regrettable of our human tendency Jumping to Conclusions is that situations go from bad to worse, small problems balloon to become complex problems leading us all to a crisis. How many times have we seen relationships break up, commitments flounder and businesses fall flat all due to Jumping to Conclusions ?
So here we are indeed with a huge problem, when everyone seems to be Jumping to Conclusions prematurely ? Let's put ourselves on the receiving end, if we are a job seeker and here we are for our final interview. And the result was ? We failed in the job interview. For various plausible reasons, it could explain why we failed that job interview. But what if the interviewer gave you a THUMBS DOWN simply because of your body language ?What happens when people are Jumping to Conclusions ? They speculate, assume, guess, estimate, wonder, infer, suspect, presume, theorize. Name it they have it. They will prematurely shape up their conclusion about based on snippets of data that are on hand. Is this fair, just and reasonable ? I'll be the first to scream NOHHHHHHHHHH because I really loathe this Jumping to Conclusions because it does not give a true and correct picture of the person being judged. Instead, the conclusions end up as either distorted or worst convoluted and far from truth.Jumping to Conclusions is that detestable thing we still happening. Don't we value more relationships and even go to the extent of jumping from the frying pan to the fire by Jumping to Conclusions ? Meanwhile, the most we can do is to assess what we can do from within us in a proactive way even before people around us start Jumping to Conclusions.
The main way to avoid jumping to conclusions is to conduct a valid, evidence-based reasoning process instead of intuitive judgments based on insufficient information. A lot of these can be averted if we avoid favoring a single hypothesis Jumping to Conclusions may not be as prevalent and as rampant as it has been now. At the very least, we can do our part to minimize Jumping to Conclusions ❗❗❗
