February 2012
2 posts
“Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust...”
– Albert Einstein
“I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of...”
– Jim Burke, former CEO, Johnson & Johnson
January 2012
22 posts
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your...”
– Alan Alda
Respect - one of the behaviors of trust!
My friend Parker Grant taught me a few years ago that it’s good for others to have an approach that is different than mine. The world is made up of many rights, he always reminds me.
By learning to respect another approach as much as I respect my own, I’ve learned to become a better architect, a better instructor, a better dad and a better friend.
Respect allows me to then better...
“I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against...”
– Kim Basinger
Can Trust be Predicted?
I truly believe it can. Where does it start?
I think it starts with knowing one's intuition. Now, this topic itself wll lead me to many more conversations through time. For now, I'll leave logic on the sidelines today and bring up the two intuition feelings that I am aware of. One is what I call 'the brakes' and the other I call 'the tingle.'
The brakes are what I've heard others refer to as their gut check. That certain feeling that causes me to put on the brakes as far as something to do. Examples have been to take a job or an assignment, to make a certain investment, to move forward in a relationship and even buy a house. This feeling is a bit different than the nervous stomach feeling. I've learned to distinguish between those two.
The tingle is what I've heard others refer to as their heart. For me, it's that certain peaceful, calming sense of enthusiasm. I've learned to distinguish this feeling from an adrenaline rush, which I usually use the word exciting for.
Once I learned these two feelings of my intuition, now it's a matter of knowing them more and learning to trust them. Over time, my thoughts, my decisions and my actions are in line with my intuition and a consistent and positive behavior can be expected and achieved.
So, thank you Bill Martin for teaching me that trust is consistent and positive behavior over time. For now, I can predict my own trust as the starting point for building and sharing trust. And in time, I hope to share a formula for predicting trust in others.
“The truth needs so little rehearsal. #IN”
– Barbara Kingsolver
“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”
– Confucius
“Don’t compromise yourself. It’s all you’ve got.”
– Janis Joplin
“Study Human Behavior son.”
– Buddy Snyder
“It doesn’t matter what I say, as long as you know what I’m talking...”
– Buddy Snyder
“An honest man is always a child.”
– Socrates
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
– Henry Ford
“Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people...”
– David Armistead
“I am saying…can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more...”
– John Holt
“Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise....”
– Sue Halpern
“Those who trust us, educate us.”
– George Eliot
“A promise must never be broken.”
– Alexander Hamilton
“I hope I shall always have firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I...”
– George Washington
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
– Goethe
“Self—trust is the first secret of success.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust...”
– Alfred Adler
“The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.”
– Henry L. Stimson
“Our distrust is very expensive.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson