Harvard Business School Professor on Building Trust, Reducing Regret, and the Underrated Power of Oversharing | Leslie John

This is the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello, my fellow suffering beings, how we doing today. Many of us quite justifiably worry about oversharing. There's a reason why we use the expression TMI, too much information. But today you're gonna hear a Harvard business school professor make the case very convincingly in my opinion.

That the real danger is T L I too little information. There are, she says, steep costs. To staying bottled up. It can have all sorts of negative health implications.

Conversely, there are immense benefits to self disclosure. Even if it's scary. There are huge benefits both physiological and psychological. Of course then the question is How do you do it successfully and strategically?

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