If you’ve ever been to summer camp, completed a ropes course, or participated in a corporate team-building exercise, there’s a fair chance you’ve done a trust fall. You know the drill. You stand on top of something with your arms across your chest. Several people – friends, colleagues or people you don’t know at all — lock arms on the ground below you. You may even be blindfolded. And then the moment comes and you slowly fall backward into a net of human arms. If you haven’t been a jerk to those folks all week, chances are the arms will hold your weight and everyone will cheer wildly. If you have been a jerk, well . . . good luck, partner.
Trust is an interesting thing. People come into your world with varied capacities to trust. Some people trust easily and at times may trust too easily. For others, trust doesn’t come easily at all. Our individual capacity to trust is likely linked to our personality and especially to our past experiences. Every significant…
