👁️🎭 Shady people cannot see honest people| that is why they keep losing. They assume everyone is like them

You turned off your WhatsApp blue tick. Maybe to avoid confrontation. Maybe to buy yourself time. Maybe just because you do not want people knowing when you have seen their messages.But it says something. And we think you already know what it says.In this episode, we build a full argument for why transparency is not just a moral virtue -- it is a practical advantage. And why the people who opt out of it are not just being private. They are cutting themselves off from the exact relationships that would serve them best.Koke breaks down why shady people cannot see honest people. Because when you assume everyone around you is out to get you, you lose the ability to tell the difference between the people who are and the people who are not. You miss every relationship that would have been genuinely good for you.He talks about a debt he owed his friend Clement for over a year in university -- 15,000 naira that felt like everything at the time -- and what navigating that situation on both sides taught him about what trust actually requires. It is not always payment. Sometimes it is just a phone call.And he closes with the principle that runs through all of it -- backed by game theory:Follow people with empathy. Be ruthless in retaliation.Not because it is the nice thing to do. Because it is the strategy that produces the best outcomes over time.This episode is for anyone who has been burned by someone they trusted and is trying to work out whether it is worth being open again.It is.Drop your experience in the comments. Has transparency ever cost you -- or paid off in ways you did not expect?