A lovely little girl was holding two apples with both hands. Her mum came in and softly asked her little daughter with a smile: my sweetie, could you give your mum one of your two apples? The girl looked up at her mum for a few seconds, then she took a quick bite on one Apple, and then on the other. The mum felt the smile on her face freeze. She tried hard not to reveal her disappointment. Then the little girl handed one of her bitten apples to her mum, and said: Mummy, here you are. This is the sweeter one. ♥ Can you imagine how that Mom must have felt? I know! The Wikipedia describes Jumping to conclusions as follows: Jumping to conclusions (officially the jumpingconclusionbias, often abbreviated as JTC, and also referred to as the inference-observation confusion) is a psychological term referring to a communication obstacle where one “judge[s] or decide[s] something without having all the facts; to reach unwarranted conclusions“. We grow up learning that it is good to reserve judgment and not jump to conclusions. However, no one can be purely non-judgmental, simply because on a primitive level, it is our brain’s duty to add judgment to everything […]

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