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As human beings, when faced with dilemmas or concerns, it is hard for us to leave the blanks open, the mysteries unsolved. We tend to fill in those blanks and imagine possible answers to those questions in order to have an understanding and move forward. We begin to synthesize from what we have come to know. This reveals the extent of what we know and the extent of what we do not know. In speculating, we can begin to get more specific and clear regarding what we are curious about and begin to reformulate key questions so that we might focus our work precisely and efficiently. It becomes a calculated hunch that can help us begin to engage with the topic of interest. It could be called a hypothesis, a guess, a working assumption, ‘starter dough’ – it is most simply, a place to start. It does not lock us into a position – we can reshape our speculations as we go along (and we most likely will).