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The Hoodwink and the Unknown: Learning to Trust Yourself

The Hoodwink and the Unknown: Learning to Trust Yourself

Update: 2025-08-25
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Self-trust is one of the most difficult—and most necessary—skills to develop. In this episode, we explore how risk-taking becomes the pathway to growth, why the unknown is a powerful tool, and how Freemasonry’s symbols remind us that trust is not blind, but cultivated through experience. Thank you Bro. Brenden P.M. Fritz Lodge #308 in Conshohocken for helping me with the hiking and growing this weekend. 


🔑 Key Takeaways

  • Trusting yourself requires navigating the tension between risk and safety
  • Small, survivable risks are essential to growth and self-confidence
  • The unknown, when engaged wisely, becomes the greatest tool of self-development

💬 Featured Quotes

  • 0:00:11 – “One of the things that we want to do as we grow is to learn to trust ourselves.”
  • 0:00:16 – “Trusting yourself is a difficult proposition because more often than not, you are the cause of your own troubles.”
  • 0:00:25 – “So how do you trust the part of you that keeps getting used to…?”
  • 0:00:40 – “Take small risks. Take risks that are manageable risks so that if the outcomes don’t go your way, you can still survive.”

🔗 Explore Related Episodes

  • The Hoodwink: Confronting Our Blind Spots – On the symbolic act of being blindfolded and the lessons it teaches about trust and perception.
  • The Plumb: Walking Uprightly in All Phases of Life – Exploring how integrity and uprightness ground decision-making.
  • The Apron: The Garment of a Mason – Reflecting on the apron as a symbol of growth, responsibility, and courage.

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The Hoodwink and the Unknown: Learning to Trust Yourself

The Hoodwink and the Unknown: Learning to Trust Yourself

Brian Mattocks