{"id":2967,"date":"2021-06-13T20:33:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T04:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2021-06-13T20:44:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T04:44:48","slug":"making-assumptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/making-assumptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Assumptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2967\" class=\"elementor elementor-2967\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-016ef41 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"016ef41\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8c7e363\" data-id=\"8c7e363\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91ca883 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"91ca883\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know what they say about making assumptions:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assumptions are integral to innovation.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Innovation involves imagining what does not yet exist so we can create new or better ways of doing valued things.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sticking to the known will only get you so far when your goal is to imagine what does not yet exist. Fear of making assumptions stifles creativity and innovation.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to innovate the future, be daring and make assumptions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just do so in a way where you don\u2019t make an ass out of anyone.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you make assumptions, you might be wrong and that\u2019s okay as long as you\u2019re humble and the first to recognize and admit when you\u2019ve made faulty ones.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From there, you can revisit your assumptions and your rationale in making them, reimagine, and adjust your assumptions accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what they say about making assumptions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,8,3,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-change","category-design","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-learning","category-problem-solving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Making-Assumptions.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2972,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/2972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}