"Fear and inability to trust...

are two of the most important limiting factors for executives (and the rest of us). Fear of criticism, of ridicule, of failure keep us from actualizing our potentialities to a far greater extent than is immediately apparent. Because we can't trust, we try to do by ourselves what can't be done alone. The most important thing to learn about fear and trust is that both are choices--unconscious choices, but choices nonetheless. That is to say, we can choose to trust and not to fear."

-Willis Harmon
Global Mind Change