I see this gal, consistently leap to conclusions, I feel are probably erroneous. Example:
A poll where you can select from for options. One of the options is "something in between", which is for not all good/bad, yes?
So then she wrote her interpretation of what that phrase meant. In other words, she rewrote that phrase into something pathological.
I did not vote in her poll (I do not meet the criteria for who she was trying to poll). If I did, I would have been incensed.
I think this behavior is widespread. Making wrong calls, all day, every day.
I see this behaviour all too often. Although we may all use heuristics /cognitive shortcuts on occasion, their over-use can lead to negative outcomes and false assumptions.
Along similar lines; I’ve had people cut me off mid sentence because they think they know where my conversation is heading. They were wrong 😄. It actually saves time to listen to what people are saying rather than try to guess, get it wrong, and then ask them to repeat it all over again 🤣. Ohhh boy, what a crazy world!. People think they’re speeding things up when they’re actually slowing things down.
This has been a type of struggle or thorn in my side. I often do jump to conclusions or form opinions quickly on certain things. There’s no reason behind it. It’s like connections between disparate things are made quickly, more quickly than my cognitive awareness can process.
Inevitably what happens is that for that reason, I start to doubt myself. After a time though, it usually comes out that I was right or at least was picking up on a thread of truth. But it’s just as shocking to me (the truth coming out) as if I hadn’t jumped to any initial conclusion. In essence it’s my intuition versus my reason.
@libra-noir That sounds like Plutonian intuition versus the way we’re conditioned to forsake it.
@rusalka Spot on. I have Pluto in 1st house and the gaslighting and then inevitable self-gaslighting (due to undermining and doubt) is epidemic with that placement...until you can turn it around. Pluto is linked to the soul, the soul knows on a deeper level, but then there's all the human identity distortion snarling up the works.
Sometimes when I jump to a conclusion, it can make me wonder if I’m in an echo chamber somehow. 😒 Maybe sometimes I am and maybe I don’t know.