You can’t control anything in life except how you react,

When you’re not getting answers, ask different questions.

Assume everyone is smarter than you are and no one will ever take you by surprise.

When you take something on, that makes it worth finishing

assumptions usually led to more work—typically the wrong work—and you would usually have to go back and start over, ignore the assumption and repair any damage you’d already done.

She needed to stop looking to support her assumptions and cognitive bias and start looking for missing bullet holes.