Fixing the trust crisis with Rachel Botsman
ReThinking
TED
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Who do you trust — and when? Rachel Botsman is a leading expert on trust in the modern world, and her new audiobook, How to Trust and Be Trusted, offers bold new ways of thinking about building, maintaining and restoring relationships. Rachel and Adam redefine trust, examine why we often trust the wrong people and question the assumption that transparency is always the solution to our trust issues. Available transcripts for ReThinking can be found at go.ted.com/RWAGscripts
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by London Business School. You know that feeling of racing between meetings, |
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| 0:46.9 | Sean has had some good ideas over the years. |
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| 1:03.2 | Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car. |
| 1:09.9 | Now Sean doesn't know how I was going to get home. |
| 1:13.3 | Thanks, Canber. |
| 1:15.5 | Gina's a muncher. |
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| 1:20.0 | Lucy likes to linger. |
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| 1:25.6 | And Harry? |
| 1:27.3 | Thank you, Harry. |
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