Daniel Ek

It really compounds.

But you're going to add maybe 1% of trust for each positive interaction you're going to do.

But it takes one interaction that's bad to ruin all of it.

The moment where you even start doubting whether you can trust someone or not, you have no trust.

So the point being is it's like absolute trust.

If you really think about it, there's this sort of final gradient.

Most people define it as this binary thing, but it really isn't.

It's really kind of like, you know, what most people will say is either I trust someone or I don't.

But even let's say you do trust someone, there's degrees of trusting someone.

How many people do you trust with your life?

How many people do you trust with your bank accounts?

Just handing it over.

Yeah, but look, I mean, you talked about it yourself.

It started in your childhood.

Like, in my case, I grew up without a father, for sure, but I have the most loving mother.

she gave me everything.

And to have that start in my life, I've always felt that whatever I do, whatever the failure is, she will always love me.

And to have that in your back pocket, I think it means you automatically come from a different vantage point than what I believe you had in your childhood, right?

And then my approach to life is just like,

Okay, well, you know, by, again, I'm not saying I have absolute trust in every person, but I choose to believe that trusting people makes for a much more fun, rich, and rewarding life than one that doesn't.