Podcast - Episode 0016 - Transparent Honesty in Relationships & Business

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In this episode, Joel and Antonia talk about what it means to have transparent honesty in relationships and business.

In this podcast you’ll find:

• Jack Welch hires based on integrity, which defines as ‘honesty’.
• Is transparency the same as honesty?
• Honesty is telling the truth, transparency is how much information you choose to disclose.
• Being honest depends upon a person knowing which question to ask, transparency is volunteered information.
• Is being fully transparent in all areas desirable? Is it an ethic?
• People like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden have altered how we see transparency and information.
• Some information shouldn’t be shared with all people since not everyone is responsible for information.
• The gauge for what should be shared is whether or not sharing it increases the quality of life for the highest amount of people. It’s a cost/benefit analysis.
• Transparency isn’t necessarily a good thing. It can be neutral, or even bad.
• It’s most helpful to see it as a tool.
• Transparency is also about timing. Devolving too much information too soon can be ineffectual.
• Sometimes people have a right to know information, meaning transparency shouldn’t be a question in those circumstances.
• It takes balls to be transparent.
• Being modest about how much transparency you’re comfortable with is important. It’s a muscle that can be built, and something that can be scaled up.
• Sometimes when we’re being ‘transparent’ we’re performing for others, and so we’re not being truly authentic and therefore not transparent.
• The more transparent we are, the less judgmental we are of others, since we’re forced to see our own inner lies.
• You can be transparent, radically honest and still kind.
• The more honest we are, the more we can identify our ‘You Are Here’ dot, or our accurate starting point.
• Putting your ‘best foot forward’ doesn’t mean you’re offending ethics. Transparency isn’t always the ethically superior choice.
• A part of transparency means owning your actions, acknowledging them from the past and owning behaviors in the now.
• Not everyone is going to be okay with radical honesty. It can feel icky at first.
• Transparency is one of the best ways to increase intimacy.

Exercises we recommend in this podcast:

For the next week, when someone asks you “how are you doing today?” be honest about how you’re doing.

Practice being transparent about your emotions in your most intimate relationships.

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