Good morning from Milano. What’s on my mind this morning is making assumptions and jumping to conclusions, and here’s why. I’ve talked to at least four or five different people over the past 10 days who have shared stories of various nature. They all come down to some form of frustration, hurt feelings, irritation over someone speaking too much or not saying enough.

There were a couple of through lines to the stories that caught my attention. One is that all of them were stories about family members. Not friends but family members. Spouses, siblings, nieces and nephews, in laws. The other piece is that all of these stories, when they came full circle, boiled down to the same thing: the person who had shared the story with me had made assumptions and jumped to conclusions. While making assumptions and jumping to conclusions of course happens to all of us, in all areas of our life, this caught my attention.

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