Idea 7: Communication and relationships

The bird carries the wings, but the wings carry the bird.

Chinese saying

Sustained communication between individuals tends to lead to the formation of some sort of relation between them. Conversely, the better the relation between two people the more communication – in all its width, depth and height – becomes possible between them. This is another fundamental principle.

The key ingredient here is trust. Trust between people is a confident reliance on or belief in the integrity, veracity, justice, power or protection of a person or thing.

The Old Norse word traust from which we derive trust is also related to tryggr, true. As it suggests, truth and trust are inseparably linked in the business of creating ...

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