[C210N]

Openness and secretiveness is like truth and lying. It is easy to always tell the truth because you need not hesitate - just say what you know. When lying, you always hesitate, to make sure you don’t slip up and let the cat out of the bag that you lie.

Similarly with openness... if you are virtuous, you can be open fluently. If you are secretive, you can feign openness but you cannot be so, because you are always on guard for any revealing mistakes that can indicate you are secretive.

[seekthetruth]

Openness and secretiveness is like truth and lying. It is easy to always tell the truth because you need not hesitate - just say what you know. When lying, you always hesitate, to make sure you don’t slip up and let the cat out of the bag that you lie. Similarly with openness... if you are virtuous, you can be open fluently. If you are secretive, you can feign openness but you cannot be so, because you are always on guard for any revealing mistakes that can indicate you are secretive.

EXCELLENT! And so true!