I was writing an article about ‘trust’ earlier today, and in it I talked about how we are not very logical when it come to trust.
We think we are… but in practice, we tend to work on intuition. In the Landscape of Trust research, people went to great lengths to rationalise their actions, but essentially a lot of it came down to feelings and beliefs.
Well - there’s nothing wrong with that. We are social and gloriously illogical creatures, but it does remind me of just how much our social context depends on what we think and feel in any given moment.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider how you feel.
Which may seem like an easy question, but how would you articulate it? ‘Happy’ or ‘sad’ is easy, but are you only one thing? Or a whole mix of them?
And do you calibrate your actions depending on your answer: e.g. are there days when you say ‘I had better not make a trust decision today because I’m a bit grumpy’?
I hope you had a great weekend!
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