This post was adapted from a comment I made responding to a facebook group post. This is what they said: Trusting isn’t virtuous. Trusting should not be the default. Care to double crux me? (I believe that this was itself implicitly responding to yet others claiming the opposite of it: that trust is virtuous and …
A post from my main blog! It’s a brief teaser on one way in which our notions of “trust” are naïve and need to be approached differently. It includes a few thoughts on how to think about it differently and also how to go about creating more trust.
An important related question:
As you go about interacting with people, how are you creating or not creating ways for them to build trust with you?
This is an important question at every level of closeness, whether someone you’ve just met or someone you’re already intimate with. How can you create more opportunities to gain a better understanding of each other and a greater sense of reliability in the experience you’re having of each other—whatever kind of reliability you might be aiming for in a particular context.
