Dealing with the truth
- When you have a choice between telling the truth or protecting someone’s feelings, it’s better to go with the truth, in a respectful way.
- Default to blaming yourself and what you control rather than looking for outside excuses.
- Check the sources of your beliefs. Ask yourself how you know what you’re saying. Did you research it? Or are you repeating a belief of the box you’re in?
- Choose truth over comfort. If an idea or some research offends you, that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
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