Unconditional Positive Regard

Unconditional Positive Regard (HT Daniel and Rolene Strauss) is the idea of giving people the benefit of the doubt at all times. When coming up with solutions, I feel like we often give excessive weight to the loud minority of skebengas. We become so keen not be taken advantage of that we intentionally limit our positive impact to avoid being a sucker. How would things be different if our default was to trust each other? Still with some limits. I call this a Bull Quota. Like suspending disbelief when watching a movie. My wife and I recently watched “Alien” again. The people were idiots. Proper idiots. But parking that, it was a good film. We can’t be so scared of free-riders and fear-mongers that they define our world. Let’s start by trusting each other.

In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream