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Do you need trust to take risks?

@estherperel is a psychotherapist known for her innovative approach to relationships. In this episode, Adam and Esther discuss the relational baggage we all carry through our lives and into our work, and how our differing personalities and relationship styles can affect collaboration and culture. They break down the differences between relationship- and task-oriented personalities, and consider the fine balance between risk-taking and rule-following that makes for a healthy relationship with ourselves and others. Join us in person at a TED conference: https://tedtalks.social/events Become a TED Member to support our mission: https://ted.com/membership Subscribe to a TED newsletter: https://ted.com/newsletters Follow our podcasts! Podcasts: https://www.ted.com/podcasts Fixable: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/fixable How to Be a Better Human: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/how-to-be-a-better-human ReThinking with Adam Grant: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/rethinking-with-adam-grant TED Talks Daily: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/ted-talks-daily TED Business: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/ted_business TED Health: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/ted-health TED Tech: https://www.ted.com/podcasts/ted-tech The TED Audio Collective is a collection of podcasts for the curious. The TED Audio Collective videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy (https://www.ted.com/about/our-organiz...). For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com.

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    Two core human drives: security vs. adventure

    1. AG

      We all have these two fundamental sets of human needs: security and adventure, change and stability, continuity and innovation. I mean, it, it's all these dualities, and they spring from different sources and they pull us in different directions. But I think you're the one who said this to me once when we did a whole thing about trust, and you said, "The research on trust is inconclusive and it basically operates with a complete definitional vagueness." We don't really know what

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    Why “trust” is hard to define (and study)

    1. AG

      is trust. Is it a condition? Is it a feeling? Is it an outcome? [laughs] What exactly is it? And we don't also know if you need to trust in order to take risks, that was Rachel Botsman who added that to our conversation, or if it actually is the act of taking risks that

  3. 0:451:01

    Does trust enable risk—or does risk build trust?

    1. AG

      strengthens the trust. I have found this extremely important and useful, and I don't have an answer, but how do I, I... The first thing is really to explain to people the necessity of both. If you just do rules,

  4. 1:011:31

    Organizations need both structure and experimentation

    1. AG

      if you just do structure and security and safety and reliability and dependability and predictability and all of that, you will fossilize and die. If you just do change and innovation and dysregulation and ch- and, and risk-taking, et cetera, you may go chaotic. You will dysregulate and go chaotic. Both systems become ineffective and unhealthy, if we wanna use that word. So again, they need each other. On any

  5. 1:311:58

    Team complementarity: the skeptics and the explorers

    1. AG

      team, you need both. You need a bunch of people who say, "We can't do this," and you need a bunch of people who say, "Let's go." This is another complementarity. It's essential that they sit at the same table and that they hear each other and that they understand that I focus on this, but I need you because the issue at hand needs this. Most issues are a n- negotiation between risk-taking and risk assessment

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