I really like how Fisher details trust, everything he said really rang true to me. I like his examples on how trust is formed, how distrust can be formed, the difficulty of believing in trust, the fallibility of human instinct, and the ways that we can attempt to make trust more credible. Fisher states that “the more that we can trust, the easier and more fruitful our life becomes” (129). He cites three reasons from game theory: avoiding the creation of noncooperative solutions, converting zero-sum games into win-win games, and applying this to the real world to “find win-win solutions to many of our most serious problems” (129). He cites the widespread use of money, by itself a very useless commodity made useful soley through the trust society holds in it, as an example of a way that trust enriches our lives. For the most part, I find myself agreeing with this as the use of money in day to day life bypasses the need of trading excessively in order to obtain what I want. For example, if I wanted to purchase a 4 cheese calzone from 8:15 in a fictional world where the United States did not use money but instead a bartering system, I could negotiate with the baristas that my smiling face, 4 quality pens, and 30 sheets of college ruled paper were roughly equivalent in value. You can see how this would quickly fall apart as it is too time consuming, subjective, and straight up obnoxious to deal with. But, we can not trust everyone and everything blindly as that would lead to a very short, ignorant, and sad existence, if anyone were to take advantage of you. And thus, mistrust is equally important in our society. Balancing trust and mistrust, in my experience, mostly comes from my relationships of people or facts that I can find to support one claim or another. If a friend tells me to be in study room 2 in order to peer review essays, I assume that he is most likely going to be there when the time comes as I know what kind of person they are. If a classmate tells me the same thing, I would most likely agree, not because I have a strong connection to them, but because I know that we both have something to gain from the interaction. If some random person on the street asked me, I would be veeeery mistrustful and would need to get to know them a little better first. In a broader sense, countries engaging in negotiations have their hands tied with the will of their people. The U.S., for example, can’t give all of its nukes to China as its citizens would become very afraid and the country itself would now be at risk (from China and all the other countries with something against the U.S.). Yet, countries also have so much to gain from working with each other, economic trade allows us to engage in specialization of resources and labor, communities agreements help countries work on massive projects together, and the sharing of information (in general terms) enriches the world in a feasible manner (medical and environmental related research springs to mind here). Idk, get your stuff together countries, and make the world a better place after reading this book (obviously not that easy due to the multiple limitations of trust, but if countries do learn to work together it could have fantastic implications for the rest of us.