Few more thoughts on trust:

  • Trust can act as a motivator as much as it can act as a demotivator. I don’t know how to measure the exact effect trust has on people’s motivation. I know that it changes from person to person.

  • Trust is asymmetrical. The level of trust one person has on someone is not necessarily the same the other way around.

  • Focusing on earning someone else’s trust rather than letting it grow through a “natural” process is not a good investment of one’s time.

  • Trust begins from one side first, it doesn’t spark on both ends at the same time.

  • There is only so much time one should give the other side to start trusting.

  • There is a difference between acting to earn people’s trust and being trusted for our actions. Even when the actions are the same, and both scenarios align, the intention we put in our actions is what will define who we will really be in the future.

  • Trust is a contract. It can be broken, amended, created, renewed, and completely destroyed.

What interests me is the effect trust has on one’s performance, in human interactions, and in our own emotional well-being. Trust has a bigger impact in our overall stability than many of us care to admit.

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