🇬🇧 The value of the truth

Not everyone are ready to listen to the truth, to the true opinion of other people. These individuals usually don’t speak their truth for habit or fear of being rejected. Along life I learned to be true to myself, at the same time I respect others, but respect is different from act as if I agreed with their attitudes. It’s more something like it happens in the book “The little Prince”, where the boy travel from one world to the other and when people are not open to pay attention to his individuality, he departs. In the story he only found one world where the person he met was in a big world, possibly a metaphor to an open mind. 

Some people believe it’s rude to say a gift have some feature we don’t appreciate or any other thing that maybe will hurt the feelings of someone. I believe any person committed to self-improvement will receive well any kind of sincere feedback. Of course some people will suffer - those who consider themselves the victims of a world where nothing goes right for them. But to lie is worse, I think. For example, imagine you were invited to visit someone. There, the person offers you a piece of cake. You eat, but you don’t appreciate. Your face will express what you felt. But even if the person doesn’t notice the message in your face, I believe it can be useful to say that for your taste that cake wasn’t really good. There is the right way to tell this diminishing the risk to hurt the feelings of that person, although the risk will always exist if her self-esteem is too low. Why do I believe it’s good to tell my opinion? Because it avoids the other person to offer me a second time something I didn’t appreciate at first. It creates limits in a way the other people must respect them. Without these limits clearly communicated it’s hard to deal with other people. It’s too easy to hurt and to be hurt without this. At least this is my experience.
Is a company that doesn’t listen to its employees able to listen to its customers? Is a company like that able to be innovative? I don’t think so, because this company didn’t build a culture for innovation nor a brand guided to put this in practice in every detail.

Nycka, the nomad