Today’s post is from my upcoming book, Don’t Screw Up Your Program. It’s a very practical how-to guide with lots of worksheets that will help you…. do that. Look for review opportunities and pre-ordering soon.
This chapter is early on, and it’s part of a group of chapters about avoiding assumptions and bad moves that can make everyone’s life miserable later. Come to think of it, that’s good insight for all of us.
I could have written “test,” “check,” “examine,” or a bunch of other words, but I chose “interrogate”for the title of this chapter because I wanted to hit you with something stronger. Our biggest temptation at this stage is confirmation bias - hearing and seeing the things that we want to, that tell us that we’ve been right all along.
As you might have noticed in your life, we are reeeeely good at that.
In a world where nearly everything is changing or uncertain, we need a stronger dose of reality. Otherwise, we’re likely to create something that only fits our imagination.
Interrogating your assumptions requires both internal work and external checking. And the Access Behavior Change framework we used in the last section gives you a good basis for doing that.
So, here’s what I recommend:
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