Dating is typically a dishonest game for most of us. We hide the worst bits of ourselves, whereas you would bring everything to the table in the first 30 minutes of meeting some one. So i felt i should tell them any potentially troublesome information about myself from the start. Otherwise it's like getting them to date me under false pretences. Would they tend to react well to this or no? Aha, ha ha. No. They couldn't understand it at all. You must have been aware that they were not tricking you and doing quotations. They were tricking you in asent. That obviously wasn't what was going to happen, but which i figured out pretty fast
In an era of fake news and 'alternative facts', the issue of truth and how it is presented to the world has never been more timely. But on a personal level, things are less clear cut. We all tell white lies and withhold info in the name of manners and politeness from time to time and some of the hardest truths can feel very difficult to tell. Micheal Leviton is a writer and musician from Brooklyn whose book, To Be Honest: A Memoir, tells his own story of growing up in a family who, according to Michael, never lied. His upbringing meant that by the age of 29 he could only recall having lied three times in his life. The challenges of being brutally honest on a daily basis have been the basis of much soul searching for the author and also serve as the foundation of a few entertaining tales in his book. He joins Intelligence Squared producer Catharine Hughes to talk about it.
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