Purpose: Separate what someone actually did from what you decided it meant.
When to use: Use this after a short reply, a look, or a silence you have been reading into.
Worksheet prompts
- Who are you sure is thinking something about you? What do you think it is?
- What do you actually know?
- Three other reasons they could have acted that way.
- What is the one question you could ask that would settle it?
You are guessing with very little. Asking costs less than the guessing does.