Commit to a Ladder Check
Set a when-then trigger for using a Ladder of Inference check in a real conversation.
a tense cognitive-flexibility moment where you may jump from a colleague's words to a fixed story about their motive Use this when you feel defensive, dismissed, undercut, or certain you already know what the other person meant. A stakeholder writes a short critical Slack message and you immediately read it as disrespect. A peer questions your timeline in a public meeting and you interpret it as undermining. Your manager asks to revisit work you thought was finished and you assume the work failed. My Ladder Check: When [specific cue] happens, I will pause for 90 seconds and write: Data I…
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