The Vulnerability Scale and the Trust Matrix
Each of you have an internal scale that you use to determine how vulnerable you are willing to be in any given situation. For some people, this scale pegs over to full trust quite easily; for others, the needle never seems to move past cautious or suspicious. For the rest of us, the needle moves back and forth all the time.
I’ve created the scale in Figure 9.1 to illustrate this point. The scale ranges from zero trust (paranoia) all the way over to intimacy (surrender). None of your feelings will be absolute or purely black and white, so the points on the scale are unique to you.
You move your needle intuitively up and down on the scale depending on what you are feeling. The needle placement ...
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