I'm Kevin Miller. This is the What Drives You podcast. My goal here is to find the most insightful wisdom for our human potential.

Many of my guests don't have huge followings. They spend their time teaching in classes, counseling patients, and researching in labs.

I'm not looking for what's popular, but what is effective.

I'm looking to pop the illusions that keep us from integrating true transformation into our lives and help interpret the concept

so we can realize our true potential and from that fulfillment.

In this episode, Distrust versus Trust, which is safer, wiser, and most beneficial.

In my continuing research into human potential, it's ever more revealed to me that we're inherently most driven to protect ourselves.

So when we look to our general behavior, our worldview, this is what we find.

Efforts to feel secure. I feel its root to our cynical nature, which was the focus of my

previous episode featuring Stanford Professor Psychology Dr. Jamil Zaki. His new book is Hope for Synics and as I ponder our

discussion I'm looking at our core beliefs and making an effort to shift

them. Senticism at the root is distrust and as a culture we've seen less trusting than ever because our trust is just lacking in our worldview. Trust in the government and commerce and faith and humanity. And some of that's relevant. I'm not throwing it baby out with the bathwater, but is it really keeping us safer than hope? Skeptical hope, but hope.

So drive with me a moment to consider

distrust versus trust which is safer, wiser,

and most beneficial in serving you best.

Friends, you're going to keep hearing me come back to this point because as an expert in what drives us I find more and more evidence that it is inherently when we're especially unconscious we're just protecting ourselves when we're on autopilot we are protecting ourselves

and that makes sense, but what about a sports team I was thinking about?

If all they do is protect themselves, defense, play defense.

Then they're never on the offense.

They're never gonna score.

The best thing they can hope for is a tie, never a win.

And we all want wins.

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