Moral Letters to Lucilius/Letter 3 - Wikisource, the Free Online Library
The Stoics had a very simple, two-step process for developing self-awareness. The first was to be suspicious about your perception and opinion about the people and events you encounter until you’ve tested them; the second was to take the opposite approach when it comes to evaluating other people’s behaviour, by being sympathetic to their plight rat
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As to yourself, although you should live in such a way that you trust your own self with nothing which you could not entrust even to your enemy, yet, since certain matters occur which convention keeps secret, you should share with a friend at least all your worries and reflections.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca • Seneca: Letters from a Stoic (and Biography) [Annotated]
Of course, if one believes in others without setting any conditions whatsoever, there will be times when one gets taken advantage of. Just like the guarantor of a debt, there are times when one may suffer damages. The attitude of continuing to believe in someone even in such instances is what we call confidence. YOUTH: Only a naïve dimwit would do
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And this is what we mean when we say the wise man is self-content; he is so in the sense that he is able to do without friends, not that he desires to do without them.
Seneca, • Letters From a Stoic
Keep trusting.
You are going to get burned in life and leadership. People will betray you and hurt you, and your tendency will be to give-up on having deep personal relationships. Continue to take the risk of developing healthy intimate relationships. Trusting people will lead to some pain; not trusting anyone provides a certain destination of lonel