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The Uncomfortable Truth About Trust: Act Before You're Ready and Watch What Expands (Epi. #264)
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What if trust isn’t something you wait to feel — but something you expand into by acting?
In this solo episode, I open with a story I first heard in my youth from a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda.
On the surface, it’s a story about a monk, fear, and a snake.
But it’s really about what happens when you let trust move before the fear is gone.
From there, I weave together neuroscience, ancient wisdom, and a concept called surprisal — the signal your system generates when reality exceeds your predictions.
And what I’ve come to understand is this:
trust doesn’t arrive before the act — it arrives through it.
You’ll hear how each guest this month offered a different lens on trust — cognitive, somatic, nourishment, and systems — and how those perspectives revealed the same pattern from different angles.
And I share my own journey — from studying AI in the early days to stepping into meditation work at a time when nothing felt certain — and how, in both cases, the signal was there.
I just had to act before I was ready to receive it.
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