Life is an experiment. Whether it is our experience with falling in love, going to college, having kids. We experience new things, but we tend to stay within this shell of conventional ideas. Conventional ideas that our society has established for what is seen as appropriate and inappropriate. So what happens if we begin experimenting ourselves on the most bizarre and unordinary things? A.J. Jacobs, a victim of his own curiosity and the author of The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment, exploits himself as a subject to a variety of unordinary experiments. In one of these experiments, Jacobs decides to practice Radical Honesty, a movement that encourages one to remove the filter between one’s brain and mouth. Throughout his writing
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By citing relatable experiences, A.J. Jacob effectively addresses the the benefits of Radical Honesty. After waiting for his boss to reply to his memo for ten days, Jacobs sends an email, which said: “I’m annoyed that you didn't respond to our memo earlier...we can blame any delays on your lack of response.” (Jacobs 54). The blunt email that Jacobs sends to his boss is a seldom action that many people in today’s society tend to avoid, believing that it may cause them the loss of their job or a cut of salary or the establishment of a hate relationship with their boss. This will induce many of his readers to infer that Jacobs will face a form of consequence. However, his boss responds to his email saying, “I will endeavor to respond by tomorrow” (Jacobs 54). This response may seem unexpected to many readers as they may question the absurdity of Jacob’s boss indirect apology. This reveals Jacobs’s success of demonstrating the benefits of Radical Honesty by utilizing common experience to his advantages. Jacobs knows that some of his readers are employees that have been frustrated with their boss’s late replies to a certain request. Jacob knows that some of his readers also want to express their feelings to their boss—their frustration—but they hold back in
By citing relatable experiences, A.J. Jacob effectively addresses the the benefits of Radical Honesty. After waiting for his boss to reply to his memo for ten days, Jacobs sends an email, which said: “I’m annoyed that you didn't respond to our memo earlier...we can blame any delays on your lack of response.” (Jacobs 54). The blunt email that Jacobs sends to his boss is a seldom action that many people in today’s society tend to avoid, believing that it may cause them the loss of their job or a cut of salary or the establishment of a hate relationship with their boss. This will induce many of his readers to infer that Jacobs will face a form of consequence. However, his boss responds to his email saying, “I will endeavor to respond by tomorrow” (Jacobs 54). This response may seem unexpected to many readers as they may question the absurdity of Jacob’s boss indirect apology. This reveals Jacobs’s success of demonstrating the benefits of Radical Honesty by utilizing common experience to his advantages. Jacobs knows that some of his readers are employees that have been frustrated with their boss’s late replies to a certain request. Jacob knows that some of his readers also want to express their feelings to their boss—their frustration—but they hold back in