It's said that 'trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair', and the challenge is how to learn from that experience to re-build a capacity for trusting others in the future. This episode is based on personal relationships, but in today's fractious environment it can apply in a much broader context — even politics. The essence is to take the wisdom learnt through past experiences in order to be able to trust your own judgements more reliably for the future.

Published: Sat 7 February 2026