Should You Be Honest Or Polite?

This video examines whether it is better to be honest and direct or polite and indirect. Learn which is most effective in specific situations.

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When you have something difficult to say, something that might hurt or embarrass the person you're talking to, how should you say it?

Should you come right out and say it, bluntly and honestly?

Or should you be tactful and indirect?

What values should guide us in these situations?

Is honesty the highest value? Or is kindness?

In this video, you will learn:

--How to decide whether to be blunt and honest or tactful and indirect
--Whether being indirect makes you seem inauthentic
--What topics you should be brutally honest about
--How brutal honesty will effect your personal and professional relationships
--What Emily Dickinson said about how to tell the truth

I discuss this in relation to Charles Krauthammer’s suggestion always to be blunt and Ray Dalio’s recommendation to be ‘radically transparent.’ In the process I talk about vulnerability, integrity, the moral dimension of interaction, and Emily Dickinson. politeness

If you like this video, the School of Life has done a good video on a similar topic.