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Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth Paperback – March 29, 2005

by Brad Blanton (Author), Marilyn Ferguson (Preface)

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In Radical Honesty, Dr. Blanton coaches us on how to have lives that work, how to have relationships that are alive and passionate, and how to create intimacy where none exists. As we have been taught by the philosophical and spiritual sources of our culture for thousands of years, from Plato to Nietzsche, from the Bible to Emerson, the truth shall set you free.

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Gestalt therapist Blanton believes that lying is the major cause of human stress and advocates strict truthfulness as the key to achieving intimacy and calm.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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"Outrageously entertaining and wonderfully wise....apply it liberally throughout your life." --Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., co-author of Conscious Loving

"Dr. Blanton advocates a take-no-prisoners approach to honesty that would send Miss Manners shrieking from the room." --Elizabeth Hickey, The Washington Times

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Paperback: 286 pages
Publisher: Sparrowhawk Publications; Revised edition (March 29, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0970693842
ISBN-13: 978-0970693846
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (136 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,299 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #83 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Ethics & Morality
- #668 in Books > Self-Help > Personal Transformation

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interesting, extreme philosophy

ByTimothy H. Mansfieldon November 21, 2004

This book is brash, confident, strong, results-oriented, opinionated, simple, and straightforward to the point of over-simplifying. It also has New Age-y sub-themes that will put off some, but that's another matter.

The book's basic point is sound -- honesty is the best policy. However, the implementation of that policy, as described in "Radical Honesty", is not very nuanced. It is a shock program most properly applied to people who are consciously or unconsciously living out self-destructive scripts that they internalized from somewhere or another, for people who are being deeply, fundamentally dishonest with themselves and with others. It is for people who could use a real shaking up, to break free from the false security and real stress of a false persona.

That's fine as far as it goes. However, if you were to apply the principles of radical honesty indiscriminately in your daily life, you would be a jerk, basically, and you wouldn't be able to get anything done in society. It's best considered for bringing health to broken intimate relationships among adults.

On this point, a quote from Khalil Gibran comes to mind:

"If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully."

The stark candidness prescribed in "Radical Honesty" is not beautiful, it is raw and ultimately self-centered. It's for emergency use, like approaching the task of redecorating by burning your house down and starting over.

That said, personally I found the author's brash style to be refreshing and likeable. As always, the reader should just extract the personally valuable stuff out of his collection of techniques and his overall message, and simply ignore the rest.

For a much less strident romp around the topic of how to have healthy adult relationships, check out "Life and How to Survive It" by John Cleese and Robin Skynner. It's a very thoughtful and engaging read. Don't be thrown off by afterimages of Cleese's Monty Python silliness -- he has a wonderfully incisive mind and does a fine job as co-author of this work on the practical psychology of healthy living.

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Awesome - changed my life!

ByLara Johnstoneon August 14, 1999

I used to think I was honest, until I read this book and realized that I had been nothing but a moralizing self-righteous bull*%$# artist and I was the cause of my anger, loneliness and seperation from others. It was not so much that I lied to those I loved, but that I had been lying to myself, I was hating everyone for not being who I thought they 'should' be... Well, what an experience it has been starting to listen to my body, share my anger, resentments and appreciations, to notice my victimization neurosis, and learning to share my feelings in the moment... Since I read the book and started practicing Radical Honesty, I have learnt how to live a life of laughter, loving, and joy... Pain, jeolousy, anger, etc. are no longer to be avoided, but to be 'experienced' as opportunities for growth, to work through them, to 'experience' them and move on.... Not only have I come to love myself, I love those around me for 'who' they are, and not for 'whom I want them to be'! Do yourself a favor and buy this book now, and then practice it! You'll never be the same.. ;-) I have not only bought it for my friends, but also my old enemies, some of whom have now become people I admire and appreciate.

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An Access to Freedom

ByMatthew Forakeron June 13, 2000

Radical Honesty is a courageous piece of work that dares to tap into conversations many refuse to acknowledge, namely, the extent to which we as human beings have a level of dishonesty that permeates our lives, a level of dishonesty developed over years that is so automatic, so second nature, that we have forgotten anything else is possible.
Blanton is intentionally blunt and abrasive. The message is not to be mixed with sugar. In fact, "sugar" is part of what is being distinguished.
A trap in engaging this material is to interpret it as suggesting one should vocalize every thought or opinion without regard for its impact on others. That's just irresponsible, and it misses the message.
Blanton points out how as human beings we are not naturally set up to be truthful. Instead, we say and do what we think will produce the desired result and have us succeed. That we attempt to manipulate each other (or at least please and impress each other) is not profound. That we don't realize the depth, breadth, and overall impact of this is more interesting. That we've grown to believe our "act" will be more successful in life than our true thoughts and feelings is profound indeed.
Blanton is pointing to something that is possible, being utterly straight and authentic in life, and to a freedom and power that is on the other side of the "act." Perhaps utter truthfulness with others is an access to truthfulness with oneself, something we prefer to think we already have.
Read Blanton's book, and you'll think again.
Two films come to mind that occur to me as at least providing a taste of the authentic conversations that are possible and what they can open up for people, the classic "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and the more recent "The Breakfast Club." People started speaking straight. Lives were altered, and a certain freedom became available. What is that freedom?
Radical Honesty is a fresh introduction to powerful ideas about what it is to be human and the notion that as humans we naturally inherit ways of thinking and being that limit us and bind us. Something else is possible. Read the book, and you may discover that the entire human race has issues you thought were yours alone.

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Great read!

Really gave me a different perspective on life. The more honest you are, the more free you feel. This book really opened my eyes, definitely a good read, highly recommend!

Published 10 days ago by Oren

lots of blah blah with whole sections as quotes

He's talking about the being and the mind again (for the 100th time) ... yawwwwwnnnn ....

There's nothing wrong with Brad's basic concept ...Read more

Published 11 days ago by Amazon Customer

Keep relationships fresh and real indefinitely

The flaws in this book are insignificant compared to the importance of its ideas. Maybe this is a book for those who need some "loosening up," and not those who need some...Read more

Published 18 days ago by Richard J. DeLong

A Distillation in Summary

This guy takes a whole bunch of books and condenses them into a single powerful message-don't lie! I'm impressed at how practical his advice and anecdotes are.Read more

Published 1 month ago by Kindle Customer

Perfect condition

This book came in perfect condition. I needed it for a school assignment, I didn't get to read through the whole book but the concept was very interesting.

Published 1 month ago by Tiffany

Five Stars

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Published 2 months ago by rommel angulo

Life changing psychotherapy book.

An essential guide to abandoning a life formed by faulty childhood moralism and instead transforming into a self reliant, honest and open existence.

Published 3 months ago by AaronBrownSound

I couldn't even finish

I reget wasting my money on this book

Published 3 months ago by Pen Name

Life-altering book!

I am a recovering liar. My road to recovery started when I read Brad Blanton's words in Radical Honesty: "We all lie like hell. It wears us out.Read more

Published 4 months ago by Bruce Mulkey

Four Stars

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