Radical Honesty by Brad Blanton

Yeah I liked the book coz he swears in it, he’s not conventional, mixes lots of schools of thoughts and had some great angles and knowledge of his own about things. Can’t be bothered about going into detail. I didn’t like the book coz it sometimes felt like he was having a conversation with himself and rambling and ranting a lot. That’s it from me… big up DD for the recommendation.

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From Wikipedia.
Radical Honesty is a technique and self-improvement program developed by Dr. Brad Blanton.[1] The program asserts that lying is the primary source of modern human stress and that practitioners will become happier by being more honest, even about painful or taboo subjects. Blanton claims this form of honesty can help all human relationships since it “creates an intimacy not possible if you are hiding something for the sake of someone’s feelings.”[2]

CONTENTS
– Acknowledgments xiii
– Foreword by Marilyn Ferguson xvii
– Preface xxi
– Introduction xxv

Part One: THE BEING
1 Moralism 3
2 The First Truth 14

Part Two: THE MIND
3 The Being Becomes Dominated by the Mind 29
4 Levels of Telling the Truth 45

Part Three: LIBERATION OF THE BEING FROM ITS MIND
5 Being Abnormally Honest 85
6 Taboos against Excitement 101
7 How to Deal with Anger 117
8 Telling the Truth in a Couple 161
9 Psychotherapy: The Journey from Moralism to
Telling the Truth 179

Part Four: THINGS LEARNED FROM THE WAR BETWEEN BEING & MIND
10 About Change 201
11 The Truth Changes 216
12 The Song of the Blue Unicorn 226
13 Freedom 232
14 The Final Lowdown 249

– Footnotes & Quotation Credits 275

Please Note: This book is divided into four parts. This sequence is intentional and it will clarify what the book is about.
I. THE BEING
II. THE MIND
III. LIBERATION OF THE BEING FROM ITS MIND
IV. THINGS LEARNED FROM THE WAR BETWEEN BEING & MIND