Radical honesty
by Brad Blanton · first published 2005
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"We all lie like hell," says Dr. Brad Blanton. "It wears us out...it is the major source of all human stress. It kills us." But you CAN escape the jail of your mind! For over 20 years, Radical Honesty has helped tens of thousands of people do exactly that. This is not a kinder, gentler self-help book. Dr. Blanton, a psychotherapist and expert on stress management, explores the myths, superstitions and lies by which we all live. He shows us how stress comes not from the environment, but from the self-built jail of the mind. And what keeps you in our self-built jails is lying. Not telling yo
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Check out the book "Radical Honesty" by Brad Blanton. He proposes a way of living ones life without all of the small lies, and the benefits there of.
on “Ask HN: Everybody lies. How do you deal with it though?” ↗Reading The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle), A New Earth (Eckhart Tolle), and Radical Honesty (Brad Blanton). I am now at peace and happy all of the time. I could spout off about technical stuff, but none of that has paid off as much as the mindset these books gave me.
on “Ask HN: What was your best investment in yourself?” ↗…Patterson Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss The Political Brain by Drew Weston Influence by Robert Cialdini Words That Work by Frank Luntz Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini Win Bigly by Scott Adams Radical Honesty by Brad Blanton I just bought this book but haven’t yet read it - Radical Candor by Kim Scott My recommendation to you is not to take the route of dishonesty, back stabbing, lying, deceit. Do. Not.…
on “Ask HN: How to find an effective career coach?” ↗So, it took a while to dig up a working link, but there's a memorable/revealing story I listened to a while ago about a visit to Brad Blanton's Radical Honesty workshop... worth a listen. mp3 link: http://fancyandawesome.com/cm/?tag=starlee-kine Original source: The Moth podcast. (( Spoiler: it goes beyond being merely unflattering towards Blanton, to downright…
on “I Think You're Fat (2007)” ↗…surprised by sections in "Lying" by Sam Harris where he wrote "Why don't we agree that you won't ask me that so I won't have to tell you the truth." A much more extreme position is Brad Blanton's "Practicing Radical Honesty" and other books by him. He admits in one of his books the huge personal cost he has seen people suffer when people tell everyone all the truth all the time, but he still thinks it is worth it.
on “Humans are Liars” ↗a) Crucial Conversations, Kerry Patterson b) Way of the Wolf, Jordan Belfort c) Never Split the difference, Chris Voss d) Radical Honesty, Brad Blanton e) Outthink the competition, Krippendorff
on “Ask HN: What is your 2019 book reading list?” ↗I am familiar with Blanton's Radical Honesty if that's your reference. What was your experience?
on “My experiment with clear and direct communication” ↗See my comment above. “Radical Honesty“ by Brad Blanton is what that comment immediately reminded me of.
on “To be energy-efficient, brains predict their perceptions” ↗