"I hear hoof beats and I always look for the Zebra" I have no idea where I heard this saying, I'm pretty sure I'm not clever enough to have made it up myself, for those of you in the cheap seats this is what I've always taken it to mean... that the person is taking limited information and jumping to the least likely conclusion and assuming it to be truth. I do this all the time, I have a terrible habit of picking up little pieces of information, adding them together and coming up with a totally unlikely answer, but you'd be amazed how often I'm right. I mean obviously it helps that I'm a genius (see there I go again, I'm right a couple of times and I'm a genius, ok so there would be the proof that I'm wrong as much as I'm right)
The reason I am so good at what I do is that I don't have all the information, it would be impossible for me to accumulate it in the time I spend with you, but I know the questions to ask to break you out of your safe assumptions and have you looking at things in a new way. When you look at an 'outrageous piece' you know all the reasons it won't work for you, I only now that it will.
No matter who you are it is normal to start expecting certain outcomes and relying on them as truth, forgetting that you have the option to make simple alterations that will change things. We get used to looking at our clothes in the same way and ignore the opportunity to shake things up and get a much more exciting result, may be even a Zebra.
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