#43 Honesty Hurts, Hearts and Heals
In this Question and Quote episode, Arnold Beekes asks: what makes you change your thinking? He invites you to look at times in the past when your thinking changed, and at what might need to change today or in the next few weeks. It can be something big, like the old belief that the earth was flat, or something small, like deciding to stop eating meat, and in each case it usually takes compelling evidence. The quote is “Honesty hurts, hearts and heals.” Arnold knows “hearts” isn’t a verb, but he uses it as one. Being honest with yourself and with others can hurt, and fear of that hurt often leads us to be dishonest instead. Honesty also affects your heart, and admitting that you no longer like your job or that a relationship has gone stale can heal, because it means accepting reality as it is. He shares his own example: his heel was destroyed in a car accident and the surgeon told him it would not be good again. He accepted that honestly, decided he still wanted to walk, and now walks well and enjoys it, even though he can no longer run.
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Welcome, I'm Arnold and this is the question and quote version of the Between the Ears podcast. The goal is to enable you to unleash and use your uniqueness. Question, what makes you change your thinking? What makes you change your thinking? I would ask you to think about situations in the past or maybe things which are happening now or will happen in the next few weeks.
What do you need to change your thinking about certain perspectives? Like in the old days and well it's still a discussion which going on is, is the earth round or is the earth flat? You might think it's like, like many people in the old days used to think the earth was flat and then came a guy who said no it's round. Well, the arguments which you use make sense. So it gives like compelling evidence that it changed.
Well, these are really big things but they can be small things. It's like you stop eating meat and you become a vegetarian. But what makes you change your thinking? So look at the past which has made you change your thinking but also look to today, tomorrow, in the next few weeks.
Quote, honesty, hurts, hearts and heals. I know hearts is not a verb but I used it as a verb. So honesty, hurts, hearts and heals.
What does that mean? Well, especially to yourself but also in a lot of times towards other people. If you're really, really honest about something that might hurt you, that might hurt someone else and then we don't do it and we become dishonest. So what is better than? Honesty also has an impact on your heart.
If you admit to yourself you don't like your job anymore or your relationship has grown pretty stale. Honesty also can heal you. It's like, hey, I have to accept reality.
I have to accept the situation and that's the way it is. I cannot change it and then it's healing. Well, the example which comes to mind of my own experience, my heel is destroyed due to a car accident and well, that is not something which will at some point in time be good again.
No, it's, well, as the surgeon said, it's destroyed but I made the decision. It's like, okay, that can be the case and well, that is the case but I still want to be able to walk and I do and I can and I enjoy my walking. Yes, it's quite different than it used to be.
I used to run also. I cannot run anymore but it's just being honest. It's like, yes, it's destroyed but still I can walk and now the walking is pretty good, I would say.
So, honesty towards yourself, towards others, hurts, hurts and heals. And remember, we need your uniqueness. Be a better maker for yourself, for others, for the world.
