And It All Comes Down To Trust
An issue we come across regularly in most structures in society. We live our lives constantly adhering to the very principle; trust. Our survival is dependent on something greater, something we’re reliant on for our existence. It could be a state, a governor or a supreme being.
Amidst the whole electoral hysteria, we’ve constantly referred to the principle of trust before electing a new leader. We do this in an attempt to gain security in our decisions. Trust seems, in this case, to be the basis of our decision.
To gain trust, people ought to display characters which underlie trust i.e. honesty, selflessness and general decency.
Although a limited definition of trust would end there, and assume that once you’ve established trust in society, you’ve achieved your goal. However, there’s more to trust, and it digs deeper within oneself.
It may seem slightly far stretched, but it’s often a forgotten subject when we evaluate trust. We’ve got to build trust in ourselves. We’ve got to have faith in our ability to excel. It strikes me, particularly at a time when students are preoccupied with revision for exams. We lose faith in ourselves; we find ourselves ‘unable’ to arrive at an understanding of subjects.
With the faculties each individual has been designed with, we all have a capacity to grow and develop to unprecedented levels. If material taught is intelligible, it ‘can’ for certain be understood. As an individual who has been victim to the ‘cannot’ mind-set, I’ve realised how I constantly limited my capacity by assuming anything is impossible. A new approach, which works, is to conquer each subject, irrespective of the level of difficulty, to see how our human capacity is extraordinary and unlimited.
As well as losing faith in our ability to understand things, we feel we won’t follow through on D-Day (exam day). Once we’ve covered all we can in the maximum depth, we’ve got to have confidence in ourselves to achieve excellence.
When we realise that the word ‘cannot’ just inhibits our progress, we will reach the pinnacle of our potential.
