The primary focus of this podcast episode revolves around the complexities associated with the telling and receiving of the hard truth. We explore the notion that individuals often grapple with the emotional ramifications of confronting truths about themselves or others, which can lead to significant interpersonal challenges. Throughout our discourse, we emphasize the crucial role that emotions play in shaping one's ability to communicate truthfully and to accept it from others. Our discussion further underscores the societal implications of this struggle, as we reflect upon the necessity for individuals to cultivate healthier emotional responses, thereby enabling more constructive dialogues. Ultimately, we advocate for the importance of self-reflection and the courage to face uncomfortable truths as indispensable components of personal growth.
Takeaways:
The struggle individuals face when confronted with the hard truths often stems from emotional responses.
In many cases, people find it challenging to communicate or accept difficult truths about themselves.
A significant barrier to receiving honest feedback is the fear of how one will react emotionally.
The act of looking in the mirror and facing one's own truths is essential for personal growth and self-acceptance.
Effective communication requires one to set aside emotions and engage with honesty and vulnerability.
To foster meaningful relationships, individuals must learn to navigate their emotions while conveying genuine truths.
Why do people struggle with the hard truth, telling and receiving.
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When it comes to receiving it, they don't.
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They don't want to hear where what a.
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May have dropped the ball at.
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You know, nobody wants to hear anything bad about themselves.
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You know, no matter what, you can insert your own situation, whether it be romantic relationship or relationship with the homies, you know, whoever telling the truth, it may be hard because you don't.
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It could be many reasons.
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One reason that I see is you don't you know how this person would respond?
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They made.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait.
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You left out a word.
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Respond
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how?
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Well, I'm looking for one word.
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You don't know how this person will respond.
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Mr.
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Your feelings.
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There's a.
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What'd you say?
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Oceans?
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Yeah, there's a reason why I went to you.
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Mr.
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Your feelings.
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Rafiki, do you hear.
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Mr.
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Your feelings up here trying to talk.
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Talk about this stuff with kid gloves on.
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Mental up here talking with white gloves on right now.
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What you talking about?
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He ain't got no white gloves on.
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He's.
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He got.
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He got some finger.
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The fingertip gloves.
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What you talking about?
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He.
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He don't want to feel the emotional side of himself.
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All right, all right, let's start this over.
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Call him Mr.
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Mental.
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The true Mr.
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Mental.
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Why do people struggle with being told the truth and telling the truth?
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Their emotions.
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That's it.
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That's all you got to say.
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Look, look, he's been called out.
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So he's like, look, I'm just going with the emotions.
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That's it.
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I've been called out.
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He was trying to give this old studious ass answer.
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I know what he really want to say, man.
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Come on,
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Pinkies.
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Let's do the pinkies.
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Instead.
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He was poking with the pinkies.
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No, man, they.
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They just.
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They.
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They're too involved with the emotions, though.
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For real, though.
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They.
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They're.
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They're too, too, too, too much bonding with the emotions going on.
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And, and that.
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That'll stop.
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That'll stop anything from happening.
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And at the end of the day, it is your feelings.
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For real, man.
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So, so you saying people don't tell people the truth.
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They.
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When telling the truth, we gauge how we think it.
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Somebody else will be able to emotionally handle it.
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Yeah, yeah, man.
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And.
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And that's.
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That.
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That's an issue with society, too.
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Rafiki brought this up earlier.
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Able to.
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To respond in a healthy way instead of just flying off the handle with their emotions.
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And gotta put that, that, that, that, that part of you, those emotions to the side And.
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And respond in a healthy manner, logically.
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And yeah, I understand it may hurt your feelings, but you got to get over that, man.
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Get over that.
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I mean, it's.
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You want to grow.
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This is a way of growing.
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You want to.
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You want to look yourself in the mirror.
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This is a way that this.
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This is looking in the mirror, facing that hard truth or telling somebody else that hard truth being that person's mirror.
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Hey, man, that was a mic drop.
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You might as well tell people how you get on out of here, man.
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And you know how.
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Hey, so that being said, you all the stars so shine like one.
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Freaky.
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You want to put a bow on this
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number one.
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I just want to say this.
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I want to encourage everybody that has listened to this podcast, even if you got to start writing it down.
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Write down your.
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Your thoughts, and then gradually work yourself to where you can start looking into the actual mirror itself.
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What is that?
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Actual mirror?
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Stay tuned for the next episode and we'll get into it.
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So you want to bring it back to old Mike?
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Well, since we're talking about man in the mirror, you know, the looking in the mirror, I just ended like this.
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When it comes to being able to look in the mirror, I like the two words that my co host brought up, knowing and acceptance.
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And
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although I know we are born in this matrix as humans to have relationships with people, I mean, you know, if a baby comes in the world and is not touched and love, that baby will die.
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So we do need people, but
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I think we get tricked to needing people more than ourselves.
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And we got to realize, yes, we.
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This journey is a journey that we take with other people.
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We always got to remember it's a solo journey.
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You got to be able to.
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It's.
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It's your soul's trip.
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Your soul's on this trip, and you can't even look your soul in eye to eye.
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It's all this.
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This is this trip.
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So with that being said, you know, you and your soul need to have a conversation.
