Comments on: Trust and vulnerability https://completewellbeing.com/article/trust-and-vulnerability/ Award-winning content for the wellbeing of your body, mind and spirit Wed, 13 Dec 2017 12:47:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Barking Unicorn https://completewellbeing.com/article/trust-and-vulnerability/#comment-1153 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://completewellbeing.com/wp4/?p=750#comment-1153 Trust is the belief that you can predict a person’s behavior with an acceptable degree of confidence.

1. Note that it is entirely possible to trust a person to stab in the back first chance he gets. The key is that you can confidently predict he will and take appropriate protective action. Then you can deal with a backstabber safely.

2. If you would trust more, simply lower the degree of confidence that is acceptable to you. If you decide it doesn’t matter to you if people don’t live up to your predictions, then you can trust anyone fully.

3. Predictions are generally based upon patterns perceived in past behavior. Therefore they are inevitably proven wrong. The conditions under which past behavior was observed no longer exist. Base predictions upon mindful awareness of the conditions under which the trusted person NOW exists.

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