Do Now: Write your Big Assumptions.

In this section we're asking you to observe your immune system and go one step further. In order for your immune system to work as efficiently as it is, there must be an assumption that makes your hidden competing commitments from column three absolutely necessary. The goal here is to draft that assumption that's holding everything in place. This will require you to be brutally honest and share out what bad conclusion you must be protecting yourself from.

They take the format: If.... (the opposite of each hidden commitment), then...(Big Time Bad Assumption)

Example: If your commitment statements are:

I am also committed to....

pretending like I know or understand something, even if I don't. 

making sure I always look smart.

agreeing even if I don't mean it. 

The Big Assumptions might be:

If I don't know or understand something, then I assume that I won't be of any value.

If others don't see me as smart, then I assume I'm not worthy of respect.

If I don't agree, then eventually people will learn to do it without me and I'll feel useless.

The criteria below will assist you in ensuring you have strong assumptions. Strong assumptions: 

1. Make column 3 commitments absolutely necessary, 
2. Have big time bad conclusions for you,
3. Display a limited world,
4. Feel powerful, and
5. Takes your fear deeper.