AN EVERYDAY BATTLE

Friday, January 04, 2008

Everyday I battle this problem--the problem of believing that most people are incompetent or insincere. I don’t like this about myself but I can’t seem to overcome it. My life experiences just keep proving it to be true. I don’t want it to be true. I don’t want to believe it. Nevertheless, it just seems to me, if not most, certainly many people are incompetent or insincere.

I want to believe the words of Warren Bennis: “Even an overdose of trust that, at times, involves the risk of being deceived or disappointed is wiser, in the long run, than taking for granted that most people are incompetent or insincere.”