What The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz can teach us about assumption-checking One of the quickest ways to get yourself into trouble—at work, at home, anywhere—is to confuse a good story with the true story. We do it constantly. Something odd happens. Someone says less than expected. A detail does not fit. And almost immediately, the mind gets to work building a narrative that makes the situation feel coherent enough to understand. That is useful—until it is wrong. That i