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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: There are often multiple truths about people, events, or things, all of which can be true at once.
Chapter 3: The selective truths other people choose to tell us influence our mindsets and actions.
Chapter 4: Selective truths may be used either responsibly or deceptively.
Chapter 5: There are three kinds of communicators who each use truth differently: advocates, misinformers and misleaders.
Chapter 6: The historical record can be reshaped by using selective truth.
Chapter 7: Across history, cultures and societies, there are competing moral truths.
Chapter 8: Numbers are frequently used to bolster competing truths.
Chapter 9: In the right hands, a carefully chosen truth can have an impact in the corporate world.
Description
Truth (2018) shows us how we live in a world of competing truths, where politicians, activists, corporations and countries tell the stories they’d like us to hear. Identifying the different ways that truth can be used to mislead or inspire, Hector MacDonald draws from history and current affairs to demonstrate how we should wait to see the whole picture before deciding what is “true.”
Who Should Listen
- Citizens wanting to navigate a world full of misinformation
- Strategic communicators in business and politics
- Journalists and bloggers looking to write the most truthful stories