When you’re frustrated by a person or situation, your brain will offer an explanation almost immediately.
Sometimes that explanation is accurate.
Often it’s incomplete.
The explanation arrives fast because certainty feels useful.
It gives you something to act on.
But fast certainty and accurate certainty are not the same thing.
Before you act on the first explanation that arrives, try asking one question:
What else might be true?
That question won’t give you the answer.
It will give you better questions.
And better questions usually produce better decisions.