Blind spot mirror

In a social psychology class when I was a 19-year-old psych major, I learned of a very common form of bias we apply to our attributions: most of us tend to assume that others are like us.  If we know what we'd be feeling, thinking, or doing in a given situation, we generally think that others would tend to feel, think, or act in the same way.  When someone does something we don't understand, we tend to analyze their actions against our own tendencies. As a result, for example, honest people with a pure heart tend to naively trust others' motives; those who are are more nefarious are often wary of others.

This seems like an important thing for me to be aware of.  Others in my life probably aren't thinking as I think, struggling with the things I struggle with, prone to the mistakes I've made. Oh, they have their own issues; they're just different from mine!