Get trusted with small things first. That’s how people end up handing you keys.

Responsibility gets handed over in increments, and the increments are boring. The locking up, the message passed along, the shift covered without any drama about it. Nobody announces that they are testing you, and they are, and the results pile up quietly into a picture of whether you can be relied on.

Take the unglamorous task this week and do the whole of it. Not most, all, including the part nobody would ever check. That is the entire mechanism, and it works faster than almost anyone expects it to.