Trust as a Creative Concept

Tan and Thoen (2001) discuss trust as a tool of control, having the ability to ‘create’, they refer to it in its literal sense as “being the birth of something new, to cause to come into existence” (Thoen, 2001). What is recognised is the creative ability of trust as a means of facilitating change, devising a new scenario or assembling what exists and fashioning it differently to produce a new outcome. The exploration of trust as a creative concept in literature has further been defined as: “The starting point of creativity is the generation of new ideas” (Gurteen, 1998).  In effect to recognise something that is requiring being new, needs the acknowledgment of what was, is no longer required, good or could be done differently. Brenning (1992) defined that creativity in humans use the same procedure as evolution by natural selection “The memory produces the best solution to date, the random function generator adds something to it and the filter tests the new solution takes the place of the old one in the memory, and the cycle starts again” (Brenning 1992).

What I am substantiating is that emotional trust can generate a change in mind-sets, as it facilitates the willing ability to endorse whole-heartedly something different. This is the foundation and basis of what produces change and ultimately evolution in areas such as cultural identity, trends, lifestyle, practices and outlook.