{"id":3672,"date":"2016-04-23T02:32:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T21:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2016-04-23T02:32:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T21:02:21","slug":"radical-honesty-brad-blanton-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3672","title":{"rendered":"Radically Honest Confessions: What a Month of Constantly Telling the Truth Taught Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span><\/p><\/div><p> few months ago, I found myself muttering self-directed curses while attempting to write an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/office-emails-coworkers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">email <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to an editor I\u2019d spent roughly seven years nursing a giant secret crush on. I had to tell him about my embarrassing infatuation, and in that moment, I wish I\u2019d turn into <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/sita-spends-her-dussehra-break-in-lanka\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sita<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and be swallowed by the earth. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why did I <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to tell him? Because in my (long) assembly line of stupid, impulsive decisions, I\u2019d committed myself to 30 days of absolute truth-telling. Or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radicalhonesty.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRadical Honesty\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as Brad Blanton, the US-based psychotherapist who came up with the idea, labels it. In 1996, Blanton published the book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radical Honesty: How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the book, Blanton proposes the idea that the path to authentic, meaningful <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/relationships-dating-advice-love-romance\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">relationships <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is by eliminating all lies from our interactions. According to Blanton, getting rid of the lies that swirl in our brain frees it from anxiety and depression. Lies are the primary source of human stress, he theorises. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sounds simple and doable enough. Most of us think of ourselves as fairly honest, and therefore, by extension, decent people. \u201cWhat kind of person finds being <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/break-up-confessions-relationships\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">truthful <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">difficult?\u201d I remember thinking primly while scrolling through an article about the book. I had, after all, been called blunt to the point of being annoying, by more than one friend, on more than one occasion. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Radical Honesty wasn\u2019t just about telling the truth; Blanton had kicked up the honesty-is-the-best-policy diktat several notches. If you were going to be radically honest, you had to commit to voicing every stupid, mean, bitchy, relationship-ending, career-destroying thought that tumbled through your head. And you had to volunteer that information, even if there was no earthly reason for sharing it. Offend people. Hurt their feelings. And then stay with them until the hurt feelings recede, is what Blanton recommends. The possibilities for wreaking havoc in one\u2019s life with Radical Honesty are limitless.<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>I loved my goddaughter to bits, but she did look like an oversized shrivelled potato in the first couple of months of her existence.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And for some foolish reason, it seemed like a very good idea to me, right then. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roughly 40 minutes into Day #1 of the challenge, I was ready to give up and call it a day. I wasn\u2019t even out of bed yet, and I\u2019d already pissed off my <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/indian-mothers-cooking-family-problems\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mother <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by telling her what I thought about her plan to make lauki (yet again) for lunch, annoyed my brother by telling him how his braces <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">really <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">made him look, and risked disinheritance by giving my father wholly unsolicited opinions about his English-speaking skills. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the end of Week #1, my best friend had stopped taking my calls. \u201cDon\u2019t you dare call me until you\u2019re done with this bullshit challenge,\u201d she shouted through the phone before ending the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/phone-calls-millennials-whatsapp-call-internet-texting\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">call<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I couldn\u2019t blame her. I loved my goddaughter to bits, but she did look like an oversized shrivelled potato in the first couple of months of her existence. My friend list on Facebook, I noticed, had shrunk considerably. In retrospect, I probably didn\u2019t strictly need to tell a friend that the pattern on her precious wedding<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lehenga looked like radioactive spiders were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/women-swimming-pool-safety-predators\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">swimming <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in Benadryl-coloured vomit. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I felt like a first-grade schmuck, and the harder I tried to think bland thoughts, the more vicious and graphic the descriptions being churned out by my brain became. Being an asshole to that extent requires serious <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/millennials-dating-commitment-phobia-parents\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">commitment <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and a far tougher constitution than I had. I was in my own private hell. In the history of humankind, no one has ever wanted an honest answer to the banal \u201cHow are you?\u201d question. It is simply a conversational lubricant, used to make the ordeal of human interactions a little less awkward. So imagine, startling random acquaintances with the information that I was, in fact, \u201cnot okay\u201d and had not \u201cgone\u201d in two days due to a particularly persistent bout of constipation. Radical Honesty was making me break some very important, time-honoured social contracts. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the end of the fortnight, I was experiencing a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/tinder-death-obituary-dating-apps-hinge-happn-grindr\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tinder <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">drought. Men I had been chatting with for weeks were suddenly either no longer interested in talking, or had completely vanished. But I suppose that is to be expected when someone sends you a dick pic and you tell them to get that \u201cdiscoloured thingy\u201d on the side checked out because it looked like a genital wart. Nothing quite like HPV to dampen the ardour of would-be sexters. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the time the godforsaken month drew to a close, at least three of my mum\u2019s friends had started to cross the road to avoid me during their morning walk. Once, while visiting, they felt inclined to comment on the tightness of my <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/arre-checklist-bandra-babe\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jogging <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pants, which, of course, triggered an internal monologue about their uniform of loose, ill-fighting bras, transparent salwar kameezes, and clunky sport shoes. Suffice it to say, the second the words came out of my mouth, all three of their faces turned redder than the gaajar ka halwa<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">they were chomping on, while <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/modern-family\/mother-daughter-friendship-father-death\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mum <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">looked like she was about to erupt in an apoplectic fit. I scampered out of the room before a chappal could come flying in my direction. But there was lauki for dinner for a whole week after that. Still, all things considered, I got off pretty easy, I think.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As excruciatingly painful and embarrassing as it was, if I were to be completely honest, my month of honesty wasn\u2019t <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">all<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bad. A throwaway observation about a friend looking pale and withdrawn ended in a surprising heart-to-heart about his struggles with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/health\/mental-health-permanent-anxiety\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anxiety<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A sudden text to an ex led to an unexpectedly frank conversation about why our relationship collapsed, and helped us both get closure. My cringeworthy confession about my bowel movements, shockingly, resulted in me getting some <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">really<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> good advice. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in the interest of full disclosure, I did chicken out of spilling some truths. Because telling the truth is exhausting, inconvenient, and often selfish. Sure, it was liberating and exhilarating to be able to tell mum\u2019s nosy friends to worry less about how my ass looked while jogging and more about their own heaving bosoms as they panted up and down Marine Drive, but did I <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">really <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">need to be such a prick? In the grand scheme of things, what did the colour of my friend\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/hype-weds-hysteria\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wedding <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dress, or potential warts on strangers\u2019 genitals matter? <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life is so much better when you can allow the lies to roll off your tongue, guiltlessly. Dutifully ooh and aah over clothes you wouldn\u2019t be caught dead wearing. Suddenly find yourself \u201cnot ready\u201d to date, when you don\u2019t like the junk hiding in Tinder-boy\u2019s trunks.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what did I learn from my month of self-enforced honesty? The truth will set you free, but a timely lie is what will buy you a captive audience \u2014 and your pick of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/tinder-hinge-online-dating-truth\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tinder <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dates.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of Radical Honesty isn\u2019t just about telling the truth \u2013 you have to commit to voicing every stupid, bitchy, relationship-ending, career-destroying thought that tumbles through your head. 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