The Policy started with one question. Why do we lie so much? Not just to others, but to ourselves? Why do we sugarcoat, shape-shift, and smooth the edges just to fit in, be liked, or avoid discomfort?

These are the questions that have rattled around my head for years now as I developed my ideas on the topic. Living by this philosophy has changed my life. It has been a way that I have found a better, more friction less way of living day to day and one that I feel others need to hear.

This book is a story, but very real in it’s essence. It follows a man who thought he had it all figured out. He thought he’d mastered the art of lying, carefully crafting the perfect life over the years, built on twisted lies and well executed manipulation. Until, one day, his fragile foundations began to crack and forced him to come crashing down from cloud nine. Blindsided by the fallout, he’s left dazed, staring at the wreckage of a life that once felt untouchable. Clueless on where to turn next, he boards a train heading home through the storm soaked English countryside. It is here of all places he finds himself in a conversation with a stranger who slowly and calmly turns the mirror back on him to face the uncomfortable truths he’s spent years avoiding.

This is not a “self-help” book in the traditional sense. There are no bullet points. No five step plan. Just a slow peeling back of the layers we all tend to hide behind.

There is no filler or endless chapters of preaching. If you open your mind and let it, it’ll challenge how you think, how you speak, and how you show up in the world.

The message is an adage as old as time. One which we have heard countless times already from teachers, parents and even in cliché sayings our whole lives. It is something we have heard millions of times but never truly lived by. Tell the truth.