Trust and Respect

Google defines trust as

firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. 

Consciously or unconsciously, most of us move and work based on our trust. If we trust a guide or a direction, we move, and we work. Hence, a doubt can be the source of a stop, a pause, or even a static condition. 

If we compare it to a machine, trust is the oil that affects the smoothness of the machine's movement and its working performance. The challenge is that trust cannot easily be bought in minimarkets or random automotive tenants it should be earned genuinely. 

You cannot force people to trust you.

One should show their ability, achievement, action, manner, and any other physical movement that can work as proof to earn people's trust. That is why it is so magical, at least for me, when someone trusts me so much over something important in the professional world. 

Based on my observation, once trust is earned, one can get the bigger price, with almost the same value as trust, which we call respect.

When people respect someone, despite some doubtful argument, people will still trust that person and can get into a healthy discussion because we trust that people have the ammunition to discuss. 

On the other hand, we are not always in a discussion situation with people we trust. Sometimes, we have to be conversing with people we just met or people we cannot trust yet. 

Trust not yet earned.

Hence, respect cannot be fully formed. 

What is the wisest option to be chosen? 

It is listening and trying to understand.

Listen. 

Trust can be earned by action because we listen to their movement, achievements, actions, manners, and abilities. Because we listen, we can understand,  we can trust and respect. 

The source of all the prices mentioned is listen.

Listen with your eyes, ears, and heart.

Try to listen.

Listen first and the rest will work naturally.