Re: Trust and Resistance

Hi Laurent,

> If the phone rings and it's an unlisted or unknown number, my
> first reaction is to steel myself for yet another encounter
> with a telemarketing person.

That fact that the number is unlisted or unknown provides at 
least a little bit of information (however ambiguous it might be).

> It doesn't take much to establish a connection: "I've heard
> your name from X", "I've read your book/blog/resume/web site",
> "I'm your next- door neighbour", etc.

> I might say "I trust people by default" if I included only
> people I have somehow been introduced to, who I have reason to
> believe share some common interest with me. Expectations count
> for a lot in this - I find it harder to trust people who have
> been introduced to me as "not very trustworthy", though that
> often says more about the introducer than it does about the
> person in question.

What I'm getting from this is that "personal referral" is a 
strong theme for you, and can influence your trust in either 
direction.  Is that right?

Is the "unlisted or unknown phone number" related to that?  If my 
phone number shows up on your caller ID display, that's something 
of a personal referral.

Dale

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Dale Emery -- Consultant -- Resistance as a Resource
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Technology, the knack of so arranging the world that we need not 
experience it. --Max Frisch


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