Radical Honesty

manic mailman

Just read this blog/article on radical honesty - http://www.esquire.com/features/honesty0707 . (It's a bit lenghty)

To me it seems a bit too extreme but that there is real useful things to take away from this. Anyhow I'm going to do a trial run of it and see how differently conversations and confrontations with people turn out!

Do you know anyone who lives like this??? Have you done this ever before??

starbelgrade

Radical Honesty ; tl;dr

Superbus

I think that theory is sh*t.

Hey, I feel a little happier now!

opinion guy

Yeah i sort of did something like this for a time.

People don't like the truth

orourkeda

Can I be radically honest and call the article sh*t and admit that I didnt bother finishing it.

Kasabian

I am radically honest in work , gets me in all kinds of crap.

Noreen1

The only thing radical honesty will get you is the loss of all your friends - which makes it about as useful as having an argument with them in the first place, although it might prove more effective...........:D

Noreen

Kasabian

Noreen1 wrote: »

The only thing radical honesty will get you is the loss of all your friends - which makes it about as useful as having an argument with them in the first place, although it might prove more effective...........:D

Noreen

Thats just stupid


I am KIDDING

manic mailman

I though it was a bit extreme but i suppose if it helps a person not to take things so personally, then maybe that' something good that can come from it.

jd007

manic mailman wrote: »

(It's a bit lenghty)

thats what she said?

Pete M.

I usually employ this technique when sh1tfaced, though I can be difficult to understand and I also see things different.

Opinions like 'You're bleedin gorgeous, I think a good ride might do ya the world of good, I'm langers' just naturally come out.

bnt

Article is over three years old, and since then Ricky Gervais wrote and starred in a movie that uses that concept: The Invention Of Lying.

So he invents lying, and soon discovers the perfect application for this new activity: religion!

Me? I try not to lie because I'm lazy and it's too much hard work. "Oh, wait, I told her what? Why did I say that? Was it because ... no, that wasn't it. My Brain Hurts!"

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Anyway I'm honest if asked for my opinion, and once in a while when I'm not.

Don't want to be abrasive though, can't stand those people who yak on offensively and then moan "I'm only telling it like I see it/I'm only being honest".

Any friends who don't like honesty, well...

Fukuyama

That was crap. And no I'm not being radically honest.... just calling a spade a spade..