How We Receive Matters
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Claude's suggestion: Wayne Dyer observed: "How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."
This is the heart of Design from Trust in action. In any given moment, how we receive someone - their idea, their feedback, their concern, their presence - fundamentally affects what happens next.
When we assume good intent and receive with trust, we're not being naive. We're creating the conditions for a different kind of interaction to emerge. Our reception shapes their action. Our stance invites their stance.
How we receive matters. It might matter more than anything else.
This article is cross-posted on Substack here, Medium here and LinkedIn here. It's also here in my Brain.