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13 People[Organizations] Who Chose to Circulate Trust

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In this world who experienced a lot of distrust, with people who in one way or another been a victim of betrayal, of fraud, of scam, of misbehavior, trust has become scarce, and it seems that it has become a "hard currency", it's rare to find. Even some of the people you call "friends" don't trust you that much, even your family members, your mom, your dad, your daughter, your son, your siblings. It seems that trust has joined "honesty" on being labeled by the song "such a lonely word". Trust, has been the currency that every people wants to keep and don't want to spend. And the world has suffered the problems caused by the non-ciculation of "trust" currency.  For some people, they'd give you some trust but would ask you to pay for more. For some people they just choose to keep trust to themselves, and live their long-boring-lives with distrust. For some people, they trust blindly, thinking they have already been t...

The Glasses of Blind Trust

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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...