Ivanka Trump: Most People Can’t Tell Signal From Noise

She was extraordinary.

Um, my mother taught me a lot about just

like

bringing intention to what you do.

Bringing sorry

and being the child of accomplished

parents. Most people thought that I

would lack the ambition, the

preparedness, but my mother taught me

that being underestimated is not a bad

thing. It's very powerful thing actually

and it almost always worked to the

detriment of the person who

underestimated me.

>> From real estate to her own

multi-million dollar fashion line,

Ivanka Trump continues to carve her own

path into the business world, succeeding

at every turn.

>> And then you learn 2 weeks before he

announces your father decides he wants

to be president of the United States.

Did you have any sense that this was at

all on the horizon?

>> Not really. And then when he pulled the

trigger, it was full steam. Well, most

people wouldn't give up an $800 million

annual business to go into government.

Why did you?

>> He asked us for help. He's like, "But I

have to warn you. They're going to come

at you hard. They're probably going to

hate you." But one of the things I've

learned in moments of tremendous

pressure and scrutiny where any slip up

is completely weaponized against you is

to find the signal in the noise. I just

don't get distracted by the outside

noise. That's probably the thing that

has been most helpful to me in terms of

performance and success because you have

a choice only in how you respond.

>> You've said politics is a pretty dark

world. This is quite a difficult

question to ask, but when you heard the

news that there was an assassination

attempt on your father's life, do you

remember where you were and like what's

that like as a daughter?

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>> Ivanka, you um you don't do many

interviews, do you?

>> Not really. No.

>> Why don't you do much media stuff or

podcasting or interviews?

>> I actually don't know. I think I'm I get

sort of really locked in and heads down

on what I'm working on

>> that

I tend to kind of put on blinders and

just go, but I like to have

conversations in longer form with people

that I admire.

>> I think the reason why I um I do this is

because I see I naturally see everybody

as like a jigsaw puzzle.

>> And you've lived an extraordinary life.

you've lived an extraordinary atypical

>> life that I mean it's safe to say almost

nobody on planet earth has has ever

experienced and so I think I asked that

question just to be completely honest at

the top because the life you've lived

that we'll get into is is one that would

have shaped you in a number of ways and

one of them is I think from what I read

things that you had said and different

experiences you had as a child is just

like trusting people

>> you know it's interesting I I grew up

the child of wealthy and accomplished

parents.

>> And so I do think there's like um a

natural barrier that goes up. You're

you're worried about people, especially

when you're a kid, um liking you for the

wrong reasons. I see this now with my

son. You know, he wants to be loved by

his friends, and I appreciate that.

That's that's good for who he is, not

for who we are, and certainly not for

what we have. So I do think being the

child of of of famous um parents and

living such a privileged life, I had

this

guard and um that guard served me really

well for a long time. Like I I didn't

have any friends despite the

really tumultuous

life that I've had, ups and downs, who

really disappointed me. meaning close

close close friends who who didn't show

up for me or or who changed because of

my circumstances or

>> what was happening around me and I've

learned for me I mean you were saying

the purpose of life for me it's you know

the expansion and not contraction of the

heart and that's hard as you get older

you know how do you live a life of of

service and rooted in and love and

connection and I've learned more and

more that those walls

they don't serve you and the only way to

have connection which is so fundamental

to the human experience is to um is to

build it and that requires trust.

>> So I have to trust people. Now I have a

good radar. I'm not foolish. I'm

>> I think I'm a very good read of people

and I think it's one of um my strengths

>> and I think it's why I haven't been

surprised by a lot of people. Um, so I

read pretty quickly, but I also have had

to teach myself rather than grow sort of

cynical as one tends to as they get

older. I've really actually taught

myself to be more trusting. And to the

extent that means periodically I'll be

burned like that's I'm okay with that

trade-off because I think it will lead

to more meaningful connections in my

life.

>> Probably nets out better right in the

long term.

>> I think so. I have this photo here of a

very smaller and

>> so funny. I look at this and I see my

daughter.

>> Really?

>> That was like the first thing when I saw

that photo.

>> At what age did you realize that life

for you was slightly different from the

average person? Like when does a child

realize that?

>> H

I think there was always a lot of

media attention and scrutiny. You see

it, you experience it very early on. And

I think my parents did a really good job

trying to shelter us from it. And it was

different then without social media. You

know, not everyone I think the

experience our children have where

anywhere they go people have a recording

device in their hands, their iPhone um

and can take pictures of them and you

know it's so um you're so exposed during

um during your formative years and

thankfully I did not have that growing

up but there were times I felt it. I

remember

I wanted to be a dancer, a ballet

dancer. And you know, my mom um was an

incredible skier. She skied on the

national team for then Czechoslovakia,

now Czech Republic. And so she really

believed in the importance of of sport

for cultivating discipline and um so she

really encouraged this. And I was