See and speak clearly

This is the feedback layer. You can’t be dishonest with yourself. Take those value intuitions and test them in the world. The world tells you if you’re being true.

Clarity matters. Vagueness breeds trouble. When leaders are unclear, people can’t act. The discipline is to speak plainly about what will and won’t be done. Name fears precisely. If you can label the anxiety, you can make contingencies. Opaque things hide rot; clear things let light in.

The Core Idea

Adjustment requires honest feedback—from yourself, from others, from reality. But you can only receive feedback if you’re clear enough to be wrong. Vague goals can’t be tested. Unnamed fears can’t be addressed.

Why This Matters

Most suffering comes from avoiding clarity. We don’t name what we fear because naming it makes it real. But the unnamed fear controls us. The named fear can be planned for.

The Practice of Clarity

Speak your decisions out loud. Write your fears down. Ask others if your actions match your words. This is how you calibrate—not through introspection alone, but through contact with reality.