Caroline Cavanagh

Assumptions Can Be Costly | @caroline-cavanagh | The Anxiety Alchemist

12 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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Caroline Cavanagh uses a hard-boiled egg metaphor to show how we fill gaps with wrong assumptions. When you assume something fragile and act on it, you create a mess. Pause and get the facts first, because knowing what's real stops your mind from spinning anxiety.

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A source of anxiety is the unknown, so we rely on things that we know, but often in between that is assumptions. Here's an egg. So you're probably thinking, egg, fragile, it breaks. So if I was going to throw this egg at my car, it's going to make a huge mess. Yeah. It did. However, our assumptions aren't always right because the egg was actually hard-boiled. So don't always assume that what you know is right. Wait until you've got the facts. Because when you've got the facts, then you're back in control and your mind isn't going to cause anxiety for you.

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