The Glasses of Blind Trust
In the extreme, blind trust is a naive, gullible, blissful, Pollyana-ish trust in almost everyone and everything. Wearing blind-trust glasses is easy for many of us at times because it doesn't really require much effort or thought. It's also easy because, as the University of Maryland's Eric Uslaner points out, "We may not be born trusting, but our inclinations to place faith in others start very early in life." Indeed, most children have a high propensity to trust. No question children are more trusting, and therefore much more creative. Somewhere in adolescence, I suspect that changes. - Charles Green Founder, Trusted Advisor Associates Even as adults - even if we have had bad experiences with blind trust - deep inside, most of us really want to trust. We want to believe that somehow our political leaders will really do what they p...