How wide is your honesty window?

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Brian Kight

If people in your life experience you as being more receptive to honesty, you will get more honesty more often. The problem is not all of that honesty will be relevant or useful. That's okay, and I will tell you why.

If you close yourself off from honesty from others because you're trying to avoid less relevant honesty, it will also close you off from the more relevant truth you need. If you open yourself to more honesty, you will receive more relevant truth, but you will also get exposed more often to less relevant honesty.

I would rather receive more honesty to get more relevant truth and deal with the by-product of excess low-relevance than try to avoid what is low-relevance and miss out on high-relevance truth as an unintended consequence.

If your honesty window is narrow, valuable truth will get blocked out. If your honesty window is wide, you will get more valuable truth but also more opinions that aren't of much value to you.

Narrow or wide. You get to make your own choice.

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