Tom Bilyeu argues that brutal honesty in low-stakes moments is what makes your genuine compliments credible later. The logic is a trust-bank model: if you always say 'you look beautiful,' your wife has no way to distinguish truth from flattery. But if you tell her when a dress doesn't work, she can trust you when you say she's stunning at 80 or nine months pregnant. Hard truths deposited now become compliments that actually land later.
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