 In your book, Unlocking Leadership Mind Traps, Jennifer Garvey-Burger notes that our deeply ingrained and subconscious desire to be right about how we see the world and act in that world leads us to shutting off input. Our initial reaction to the limited facts and contexts that surround any given situation becomes solidified in our minds as the truth very quickly. From that point, we seek confirmation of that truth, to the exclusion of contradictory information. Not wanting our egos to be bruised, we then double down and fail to seek or see the totality of the observable data. Put bluntly, we see the reality we choose to see. Short-circuiting this quite human instinct requires engaging others in examining our decisions and belief systems, as well as the earnest desire to want to arrive at a fully informed and more inclusive decision or viewpoint. Others must avoid the trap of creating a post hoc narrative that is moving the goalposts that fits a preconceived notion of what the truth is and how it came to be. This can only be done through inclusion and a willingness to be wrong and to be shown that wrongness. Lead well this week.