radically honest ? Take our quiz below based on the work of myprimetime.com personal trainer Brad Blanton, Ph.D., author of Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life By Telling the Truth . Answer all 9 questions to get your score.
At 4:30 p.m., your boss piles a major project on your desk and says you have until the end of the next day to finish it. You:
In private, tell the boss you resent him for giving you the new project. After you both express your feelings, ask to set up an agreement about workload.
Cancel your evening plans and stay late to finish the project. Complain bitterly to co-workers.
Drop all other work and finish the project. When the boss asks for the other work, say you made a choice.
You meet an attractive woman but her voice makes your skin crawl. You:
Avoid calling her and, if she calls, tell her you're busy.
Meet with her and explain exactly how her voice and speaking habits make you feel.
Call her and tell her you've recently reconnected with an old lover and so are unavailable.
You and your next-door neighbor have an agreement to take turns taking out the trash each week. You repeatedly forget when it is your turn. Actually, you are secretly frustrated with the constant construction noise from his home business. You:
Avoid the issue, avoid your neighbor and continue to forget.
Draw up a written trash schedule, give a copy to your neighbor, and vow to do better.
Meet with your neighbor, express your anger over the construction noise, and acknowledge your duplicity in the matter.
You visit your parents and they again mention the mystery deep dent in their car. Only you know that it was your fault. You:
Listen and sympathize, and promise yourself you will tell them when it's appropriate.
Speculate on possible causes and vow to help them find the culprit.
Tell them the whole story about how you stole the car when they were at work and then crashed it into a mailbox.
You go to work while your wife takes a day off to go shopping. You are eating lunch with a co-worker whom you find very attractive when you catch your wife's eye through the restaurant window. Later, you:
Say, "None of your business," when your wife asks about the woman.
Say the woman is a co-worker with whom you would like to have an affair.
Say the person is a potential advertiser whose account you are trying to land.
You and your spouse go to a movie. In line, you run into a former lover and you say hello. Later, with your spouse, you:
Say, "That was my former lover. We used to do the most amazing things in bed," and give all the details.
Say, "Oh, that was an old friend from high school."
Say, "That was someone I used to date" and leave it at that.
You have breakfast with your boss, lunch with your visiting parents and dinner with your lover. You:
Are a "yes-person" with your boss, controlling with your parents, and domineering with your lover.
Are casual, open and honest with your boss, your parents and your lover.
Are assertive with your boss, and passive with your parents and lover.
Your co-worker asks you if your office bully, Sally Sue, and the guy from accounting are "an item." You:
Discuss the situation with your friend, and then ask around for other opinions.
Ask the guy from accounting — as well as Sally Sue — if they are "an item." You tell them who told you about it.
Tell Sally Sue how her bossiness makes you feel.
You have been dating someone for a month and are both thinking of becoming sexual. You feel it's important to get tested first for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases; your partner does not. You:
Avoid the issue and have sex "accidentally" one night when you're both drunk.
Get tested yourself; drop a subtle hint that your partner might follow your lead.
Ask your partner to get tested; refuse to be physically intimate until that happens.
From Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life By Telling the Truth
