Nearly ten years ago Dr. Brad Blantan presented a TEDx talk about his work. His first book, Radical Honesty: How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth, became a nation wide best seller in 1996. He hear that presentation and part of an interview we did from 2013.
Excerpt from Radical Honesty: In the beginning, an attempt to change the habit of smothering anger can be explosive. The backed-up fund of resentment is released in a torrent.The first blow-up seems like a nuclear explosion, both because of its magnitude and because it contrasts so dramatically with former politeness. After a little practice, the explosions become like conventional bombs, then like dynamite, and then like firecrackers. The eventual goal is to have hundreds of tiny explosions a minute, like an internal combustion engine. This anger is good fuel to burn; it’s a source of creative energy.
In past shows we’ve talked about the importance of intuition and using our instinct to detect lies. In our last interview with Dr. Judy Wood, she explicitly recited to know that you know what you know and know everything else that you don’t know. Past guest, professor Eric Larson wrote extensively on exposing the subtle toxic lies that infect the progressive media and its damage to culture and the arts. Today’s guest has also written in depth about the importance of telling the truth and how all stress is caused by lying. He says, we all lie casually and habitually and we do it unconsciously. The most pernicious is withholding information.
Guest – Dr Brad Blanton is a psychotherapist, author, seminar leader, and twice Independent candidate for US House of Representatives. His first book, Radical Honesty: How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth. The book was a nation-wide bestseller in 1996 and explains very directly how to notice and stop various forms of self-deception and lying to others.