Honesty
topic on 2 shows · 5 statements across 3 episodes
5 statements about Honesty, every show
Alex Ramon: Leaders Can Be Honest Without Full Transparency
“So you can be honest without being fully transparent.”
Almost no company is willing to seriously address institutional dishonesty
“It's kind of interesting that when you talk about, you know, how to get people to save more, it's easier to get people to do something, how to get people to be healthier. But when you talk about honesty, almost no company is interested in taking like a real, r…”
Maintaining honesty requires continuous daily vigilance, much like dieting
“Honesty is a little bit like dieting. It's not that something that you read once and then you get to fix it. It's something that you have to fight with every day, right?”
Naval Ravikant: Dishonesty creates multiple mental threads that fragment the human mind.
“Because if I disconnect what I'm thinking from what I'm saying, that creates multiple threads in my mind. That means that I'm no longer in the moment. That means that I now have to work future planning or past regretting every time I'm talking to somebody.”
Ravikant: People who brag about honesty are probably dishonest
“If someone is going around and talking about how honest they are, they're probably dishonest. That's just like a little telltale indicator I've learned. When someone spends too much time talking about their own values or talking themselves up, they're covering…”