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The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
Dan Munro’s Guide to Overcoming the Validation Addiction
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Dan Munro is back, and this time we go after the validation addiction: the quiet habit of arranging your life around being liked. Dan is a coach and the author of "The Naked Truth", and his angle is always the same uncomfortable question, where are you lying to keep the peace, and what is it costing you?
We get into self-deception and the biases that protect it, the link between shame and dishonesty, and the mixed messages culture sends about being honest. Dan shares the real damage his own dishonesty caused. We also talk about being comfortable with being disliked, expressing yourself honestly without using "honesty" as a weapon, and we even use the Chris Watts case as a dark study in where dishonesty can lead.
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