The Angle You Didn’t Check

You checked the facts.

You checked the timeline.

You even checked your own reasoning.

Here’s what you didn’t check: whether you were looking from more than one place.

Most people, when they slow down to be careful, do it by re-examining the same angle more closely.

Not by finding a different one.

That’s the miss.

A decision can feel thorough and still be narrow.

Thorough and wide are not the same thing.

The leaders who avoid this trap ask themselves a strange question before they decide:

Whose position haven’t I stood in yet?

Not to second-guess everything.

Just to check the view from somewhere else before they call it settled.