Double Speculation

I absolutely love this concept because I don’t think I have ever heard it spoken of before until I stumbled on it one day with some very close friends when we were engaged in prognostication about what we all wanted in our vocations in life. 

A very close confidant reminded me of it today when she said: Well if she does this then you might do that. This is a perfect example of double speculation.  The first is: If she does this, the second: then you might do that. How often are we engaging in this practice, which has absolutely no basis in reality? True we can assume that if it’s happened before this could be classified as a chain of events, it is not double speculation, but predictable behavior instead. Double speculation gets us in trouble because we often cut ourselves off by imagining things that would not have happened and in turn ruin what can be the most exciting things in our life.