Trust is a critical component of
life. We need to be able to trust our
family, our friends, and our co-workers.
And we also need to have a certain amount of trust in humanity and of
our surroundings. After reading the
chapter on trust from Houston and Sokolow, I came away with many valuable
ideas.
One of the ideas that I found to be
important was when the author wrote that when you give trust, you receive
it. I think this is a critical piece of
understanding trust. Unless you are
willing to open yourself up to trusting others, you will never receive trust
yourself. I also liked when the author
stated that bad things happen but do the good thing anyway. This can be a hard concept as when bad things
happen to you, it’s hard to trust enough to continue doing good things. This has sometimes been a struggle for me
personally. When bad things happen, I
find it hard to trust enough to continue doing good things.
A key statement in the chapter is
that you can’t do anything for someone else that you can’t do for yourself
first. I found this statement to be so
true. If you are unable to trust in
yourself and do things for yourself, then you are unable to trust and do those
things for anyone else. My favorite
statement from the author was that the world is made up of a lot of imperfect
people trying to move forward. I really
liked this idea. We all make mistakes but
we are all just trying to survive, keep moving on with our lives and trust that
everything will be alright.