The Unfinished Trust Exercise

Failure as a human being and as a leader. The curse of self-awareness.

When I was young, I had a strange experience. One that would probably have had me on medication or sectioned in a therapeutic home if I’d lived in the US and told an adult. But one that was absolutely real to me, as I experienced it.

I was about ten or eleven years old, in the summer between primary six and seven. I was staying over at my dad’s house in …