Society, organizations, and relationships aside, there’s an even more fundamental and powerful dimension to self trust. Often, we make commitments to ourselves—such as setting goals or making New Year’s resolutions—that we fail to fulfill. As a result, we come to feel that we can’t even fully trust ourselves. If we can’t trust ourselves, we’ll have a hard time trusting others. This personal incongruence is often the source of our suspicions of others.
