This course, Your Brain on God, has expanded my knowledge on the subjects of neurology and spirituality. The course assisted me to end the conflict that I had between religion and science. One idea that I learned in this course that will affect how I do ministry and live my life is the Neuroeconomics of trust. In the article “The Neuroeconomics of Trust” by Paul J. Zak, the importance of being able to trust other people is explored. Trust is fundamental to life. Trust has a major impact on a person’s well-being and their self-image. Humans are a highly social species. We are indoctrinated into societal norms that include compassion, respect, and trust. Yet there is an expectation that when we give, there will be action returned or reciprocated. …show more content…
I find that in order for me to do work and to be in relationship with others, there must be some form of trust or reliance in the other person or people. Our ability to selflessly give ourselves to others comes with a guarantee of reciprocation. We trust in order to be trusted. Every type of relationship that we have as human beings is anchored on our ability to be open and share ourselves with others. Trust is what holds everything together. A life without trust will be full of dread, fear, and paranoia. Without trust, we keep double-checking and questioning both ourselves and those around us. Trusting other people more can ease the weight and burden that we place on …show more content…
There must be an effort to foster trusts and strong relationships or my goals and objectives will fall short of the success that I seek. In my experience, there seems to be distrust in government and institutions that I will face in my life and vocation. Distrust and trust affect decision-making, participation, and discussions. It creates great distance between people. One of my goals or objectives in life is to build trust and teamwork among people I work alongside. In order to share spiritual practices and faith with others, I need to embody transparency, respect, and effective
The biggest way that my actions affect other people is that of betrayal. Other people trust me with responsibilities, and when I take a negative action towards that trust it decreases. On the other hand, if I have a positive reaction towards the trust that awarded to my behalf, then I am trusted with more and bigger responsibilities. Trust comes in many shapes and forms, and there are too many people in the world today for us to not go a day without someone relying on us in some way. There are many things that we are obliged to do on a daily basis.
In the first chapter of Psychology in Christian Perspective by Harold W. Faw the author talks about psychology as a subject, the different aspects of the subject and how psychology fits into the Christian world. Faw begins the chapter by describing what others think psychology and his views on psychology as well. He describes that “psychology can be described as a systematic attempt to understand human behavior and conscious experience” (Faw, 1995, p. 12). He then goes on to describe the many different types of specialties of psychology which include, neurobiological, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, and psychoanalytic. These specialties are then integrated into the Christian worldview. They are all different so they all fit into
Trust and shared vision unify the facets of interpersonal resources leaders, direct or guide as employees, navigate through the structured network of relationships that encompasses the cooperative relationship of shared vision, shared values, and mutual goals (Frisina & Frisina, 2011; Li, 2005; McLeod & Young, 2005; Rodríguez-Campos, 2007). Faithfulness and dependability of purpose, move the organization forward from an expected ideal state or big picture whereas the behavior of the leadership becomes the forecaster of organizational performance (Frisina & Frisina, 2011; McLeod & Young, 2005; Rodríguez-Campos, 2007). Reemphasizing Frisina and Frisina (2011) quote, “Whenever performance does not match potential, there is a gap between how we are actually performing and what we could be achieving with the appropriate level of influential leadership and personal motivation” (p. 27).
After reading a few of the chapters in "Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith", I feel as if I have learned more in one sitting than many in years of my life. The chapters were not life altering, but simply stated things that I have overlooked. The topics that affected me most were on living with the mysteries of faith, benefits of true rest, and the emotion of happiness. Yes, they are really in no way related, but each of these topics impacted me in a different way, and made me think about what was being presented.
Paul Tillich. “What Faith Is”. The Human Experience: Who Am I?. 8th ed. Winthrop University: Rock Hill SC, 2012. 269-273. Print.
of each other. Regardless, there are still Christian counselors or therapists that use (or in a
To start my answer related to trust, I would like to start with few quotes that shows the power of trust like, “without trust we don’t truly collaborate, we merely coordinate or at bets cooperate. It is trust that transforms a group of people into a team “- Stephen M.R Covey
Trust relationship gaps are one of the biggest stumbling blocks towards greater transparency, and better workplace relationships.
“Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity” (2010) is about the purposeful integration of psychology and Christianity. Entwistle, discusses the integration of scripture and nature, holding to historic orthodox Christianity that “Scripture and the natural world have their origins in God’s creativity and revelation” (Entwistle, 2010, p. 136). Theology clarifies the Word of God (Bible), and Psychology corresponds with the works of God. A working definition of integration is offered,
A leader can’t simply say – trust me, trust takes time to build. People trust us when they see some value in us. When we take care of others, sacrifice something, show value to something, or do something for others? Its then we are valued by others and trust is gained from it.
With a cross-functional team such as Google’s, trust is extremely important to establish. Turaga (2013) described trust this way: “Psychology studies state that to trust is to believe that the other person will do what is expected” (p. 14). Trust really consists of just a little more than managing expectations among a group of individuals. Turaga (2013) goes on to say that “Many a time, with trust as the foundation of the relationship, one tends to predict what the other can do even without knowing much about the other person or without much knowledge of the situation” (p. 14). This is relevant since teams within organizations such as Google do not have an endless amount of time to establish trust for reaching goals. There are a few things
Some issues that surround trust is the members within the group will feel vulnerable. Reason why vulnerability is presented is that members are opening up to a room full of strangers. Members may feel that others may judge them or look down on them when they feel comfortable to open up to the group. There are multiple methods to build trust within a group one is “Exposing yourself” Open yourself to others. Not in a dangerous way where people can take advantage of you, but rather in a way that demonstrates honesty and humility. Your group needs to know that you are just like them. Be willing to admit your own failures. If you put up a wall around yourself, your group will too. Members of the group begin to trust the leader when they feel the leader will be helpful, guiding them through to resolution of the issues that trouble them, another
you into this world. So, let us begin with what trust is and how it has been used in the past, as
Leaders are dishonest. Although some are unintentionally dishonest, it can lead to the deterioration of trust between the leader and his or her followers. An ideal leader is effective when there is trust established between both the leader and the followers. According to Michelle Bligh, trust is an “expectation or belief that one can rely on another person's actions and words and that the person has good intentions to carry out their promises” (21). Leaders gain trust when they are consistently honest and communicate well with their followers. In return, followers respect an honest leader and obey commands without issues. Respect causes a positive environment because authoritative figures and subordinates can rely on each other to achieve the
Together we chose three important concepts: leadership, followership, and trust. Leadership characteristics and behaviors are often discussed, but that of followership is much less common (Jerry, 2013). The study of followership is many times overlooked, although research on leadership is abundant (Satterlee, 2013). The fact is, a leader cannot lead without followers, thus is why followership is important (Satterlee, 2013). Point blank, there is no leadership without followership, but still the topic of followership rarely arises (Hoption, 2014). As defined by Mayer, Davis, and Schoorman, trust is “the willingness of a party to be vulnerable to the actions of another party based on the expectation that the other will perform a particular action important to the trustor, irrespective of the ability to monitor or control that other party as a positive expectation that another will not act opportunistically” (1995, as cited in Satterlee, 2013, p.