May 21, 2012

I Thought…

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One find day, two good friends, Matt and Dan decided to meet at the park for a walk. All of a sudden, it begins to rain.

“Quick!” Matt said, “Open up your umbrella.”

“It is no use.” Dan replied, “My umbrella has a lot of holes on them.”

“Why do you still bring it out with you then?” Matt asked.

“I thought it wouldn’t rain” Dan replied briskly.

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Are you also like Dan frequency falling into the “Assumption Trap”.

“I thought this would never happen.”

“I thought she is a selfish person.”

“I thought it wouldn’t rain.”

When we start to say “I thought” usually could it means that we are lazy to learn more about a situation or possibility?

What do you end up facing, the last time you said “I thought”?

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4 Comments so far

Sam Chan on August 15th, 2007

Very true.. one must be careful with words.

I don’t really like to use the phrase “I think…” In a seminar, when I hear a speaker use the phrase “I think…” I have the impression that the speaker doesn’t know his stuff very well. Personally, I prefer to say “I believe…” unless I am not sure what I am saying.

A lot of positive thinkers will even tell us to take the word ‘failure’ out of our vocabulary, and replace it with the word ‘outcome’.

Thanks for the reminder, Jenny!
Many Blessings to you
Iry on August 16th, 2007

This post reminded me that when I was in primary school, few of us ( my friends and I ) did something wrong (forgot what was that already) and when we all answered ” I thought… ” we were heavily scolded by our English teacher and said that ” There is no such thing as ‘ I thought’ “.. It’s just excuses..” Then being ..

I still feel innocent nowadays!
38kia on August 16th, 2007

we are not allowed to say “I thought, i thought.. i thought.” in company, especially when we reporting to head or managers.
Our boss doesnt like it.

So when we work, we could be extra careful and confirm. this is good thing to build up the confident in oneself ~
Michael Fultz on August 19th, 2007

There’s an old expression about what happens when you assume..