Being At Ease with Others - Roundtable

This Roundtable discusses the podcast Being At Ease With Others which explores the concept of general unease around others, a kind of background social nervousness that is universal. The general conclusion of the podcast was that we should be proactive in setting others at ease and learn how to trust others as a default. Topics explored in the Roundtable include: the way that managers’ trust in new hires makes it more likely those hires will be successful (and the opposite for distrust); that we can think about exercising ‘2 muscles’: creating an environment of trust and developing one’s own ability to trust; the relationships between unease and control, and how control is antithetical to trust; and how this universal tendency toward social unease plays out differently according to different cultures and social norms.