66. Trust
is at the crux of most relationships, business connections, and life issues.
Looking at two scenarios, which one sounds more sustainable:
Trusting others to move you forward in life, however flawed their actions or attempts may be.
Being self-reliant and forcing yourself to carry the load of everything.
“If you don’t trust the people around you to do good work, you’ve got some work to do”- Chris Baca
Patrick Lencioni is an author most known for his research and understanding of team dynamics. He came up with a helpful way to understand how dysfunctions of teams appear with the triangle above. He proposed that a lack of any of these 5 qualities can lead to disruption. Interestingly he said trust is the foundation by which all is built- without it no progress can be made.
This is often hard in both professional and personal situations as requires a level of vulnerability to share challenges, emotions, and hardship.
We can believe this to be negative as trust can be taken advantage of; but looking to the two scenarios, what is the other option? We become closed off, forced to bare the weight of it all. Nobody wants this.
It starts with taking a chance on someone; who knows you might just achieve some amazing results together.