Even good assumptions can be bad

Every action, every system or way of doing things, has at it's core an assumption or set of assumptions and beliefs.

If I eat food, the assumption is that food will satisfy my hunger or some psychological discomfort -- we don't eat just because we're hungry.

If my life is obsessively geared toward making money, there is the assumption that some physical or psychological discomfort will be relieved, or some benefit created, through that effort.

Assumptions themselves are neither good not bad. Many are false and the rest are just more or less mature, intelligent and rational.

The ability to clearly identify and evaluate these assumptions and de-construct false ones, transform less intelligent ones, and create completely new ones, changes not only how we understand the world, but how we act in and how we feel about, ourselves, others and the world.

Consistently questioning and querying our assumptions (especially when they're working for us - precisely because they're working for us) and exposing and contemplating new foreign assumptions and narratives are the keys to psychological development.