Scott Mann

This primal instrument that has been around for hundreds of thousands of years is actually well-suited to bridge through that stuff.

We're natural storytellers.

We're actually predisposed for connection.

We don't have fur fangs or claws.

Right, but yet we form groups and teams better than anybody else and we sit on top of the food chain of all mammals because we know how to team and we're wired for it.

But we've atrophied all those skills.

So what I'm saying is we need to understand how humans actually make connections, how we build relationships.

What creates reciprocity?

What makes another human want to do something for you?

The reason that I've built the networks that I've built is because I understand both the art and the science of connection.

And I understand that the relationship's the most valuable asset you have in your inventory.

Not for the transaction, but for the frigging relationship.

You think about the things you and I have done together.

in the last, what, four or five months.

Every single one of those things has come from the relationship that we have and that we've built.

And it's all built on a platform of trust, right?

And I know that if you come to me with something or I come to you with something, we're gonna go, we're gonna figure it out.

We don't know the answers, but we'll figure it out.

And honestly, that is the foundation for where we need to go as a civil society, as businesses, communities, is we gotta reestablish social capital.

And we got to get away from this bullshit of building a relationship for the transaction, which is what we've been conditioned to do.