E111 - Rachel Botsman: What it really means to trust
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Botsman is a trust expert, author and academic at Oxford University. Her books ‘What’s Mine is Yours’ and ‘Who Can You Trust?’ are critically acclaimed. Rachel was named one of the world’s 30 most Influential Management Thinkers by Thinkers50. She is also the host of the podcast Rethink Moments.
In this episode, Rachel shares with us how to successfully speak in public: letting go of the need to be liked and focus on the giving. She provides her expertise on trust and the thoughts behind her crucial theory: “Trust is a confident relationship with the unknown”.
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| 0:36.9 | I've always found it really powerful to think of trust as something that you give and |
| 0:42.8 | then the other person has to earn. |
| 0:44.6 | It's number one question I'm asked, how do I build trust? |
| 0:47.4 | They're not thinking about trust in the right way. |
| 0:50.8 | This is why this language of building trust is very problematic because when I say, |
| 0:55.5 | right, I want to build trust. |
| 0:58.1 | It's assuming that I have control over this. |
| 1:01.3 | But in any situation, you, the giver has the trust, the leader doesn't have the trust, |
| 1:07.4 | the leader has to earn that back. |
| 1:09.3 | So realising you're actually quite powerful in this situation, right? |
| 1:13.2 | You have this trust to give back to them and do they want to earn it? |
| 1:16.8 | I think doubt is one of the most misunderstood words, like we see doubt as something very |
| 1:23.9 | negative and I can't tell you in the number of times I have to follow some guru who |
| 1:28.7 | has never doubted yourself and I then come on stage and actually, no, no, no, trust is |
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