Dr. Leslie K. John

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621 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4 May

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The Mel Robbins Podcast · How to Become More Confident, Influential, and Communicate Better with #1 Harvard Business Professor · 4 May 2026 podcast

And they say, I don't want to answer that question.

I'm not answering it.

Refuse to answer.

And so we put thousands of people in this quandary.

Now, neither of these is exactly, as my father would say, a fine specimen.

So you push, come to shove.

You want someone who's more responsible or who answers your questions.

But if you had to choose, if you had to choose, who would you pick?

And again and again, we found...

People prefer the revealer, the person who says the thing, even if it's a terrible thing relative to someone who hides, who saliently withholds.

We've found this in dating context.

So here it's about 65% of people.

So not 100% of people, but the majority, the significant majority prefer this devil they know.

In other studies we found, like in another study, we asked people who they'd rather hire.

Would you rather hire someone who on the job application

answered the question, what are your worst grades and admitted that they'd failed versus the someone who opted out, something like 89% of people choose the person who admits to the bad thing.

And this just was like astounding to us.

So we did more studies and what we realized was that the reason that

people really didn't want to go for the hider was because they distrusted them.

Because at least the person who revealed, at least they revealed and they're trustworthy.

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