Pilot Trust–What It Is & How To Use It

If you couldn’t tell, I gave myself a couple days off of my daily writing. I took a short vacation up in Massachusetts, where I’m from, and decided to disconnect for a bit.

In any case, I’m back at it and happy to see your groggy Monday faces again.

As I flew back to New York last night, overlooking the moonlit sound off of Connecticut, I started to think about trust. But not just any trust, that kind which we impart on a select few individuals that carry us to and from our destinations–namely pilots, bus drivers, train conductors, etc. I call this Pilot Trust, and it’s a unique flavor of trust.

Often without hesitation, questioning, or qualms, we wholeheartedly trust these people to be our careful travel stewards, to have our safety in mind at all times, and to knowingly accept the burden of holding dozens of our fates in their hands at once. In a world strife with mistrust and ingenuity, this sliver of societal trust may be one of the last true bastions of hope.

So today, I encourage you to find just one instance where you enter a situation with a sense of distrust or uncertainty and try to reassume your more trusting self as if your counterpart or colleague were a pilot or conductor to whom you innately give your full trust to.

Does that make any sense?

If not, forgive me, my vacation cobwebs must still cling to my written words.

It’s good to be back–I’ll see you tomorrow.