There’s so much importance placed on honesty, or maybe it should be called fake honesty and it’s simply not useful. Appraisals, how-are-you-doing-meetings, 360s, people telling you what they really think. Here’s an idea – why not just swallow it down? The greatest people to be around are positive people. I think you look smashing; I think the job is fine; I bet he didn’t mean it when he got a bit twatty with the waiter. What they are really saying here is ‘I’m on your side’. Miles better. Encouraging, supportive, kind, less forthright, way less judgemental.
