Why Keeping Secrets Are Harmful?

A light soft whisper escapes your lips, twinkling, gleaming eyes, and a mischievous smile is thrown. A secret escapes your lips and now the question is whether this is the ultimate sin or virtue. The act of secrecy is pretty normal to be committed by the human nature. The question now today is whether or not secrets can be harmful. Secrets are harmful, whether you have a secret or if you’re keeping a secret for someone else. When you keep secrets you harm your health and destroy your relationships with family, friends, and your partner. Several scientific research now explain and demonstrate how secrecy is harmful. People are terrible at keeping secrets no matter what anyone may say. Some keep secrets but face all sorts of guilt, fear, and

However, what this argument fails to consider is that keeping secrets is crucial to a company’s success. These companies need to keep secrets so they could hide their ideas, tactics, and algorithms from their competitors. According to Why Keeping Secrets Can Be Crucial To A Company’s Success, it states “In a building a $2 billion advertising business in Australia where many of our company’s clients were competitors with each other, it was essential that we all had secrets and kept them.” In a company, secrets need to be kept because, you would want to have your plans and strategies, hidden away from other competing companies. It’s a way to survive, to make money, and to be in the big leagues. For example, Coca – Cola’s famous recipe was invented in 1886 and only two people know the formula. It’s one of the best - kept secrets in the world, and this company has kept this secret because it’s valuable, not well known, and is a marketing tactic. Others may say we should keep secrets, but I disagree. According to “Incognito: What’s hiding in The Unconscious Mind, “your brain also doesn't like stress hormones. So when you have a secret to tell, the part of your brain that wants to tell the secret is constantly fighting with the part of your brain that wants to keep the information hidden.” Stress causes you to be upset, angry, and frustrated, which is a negative vibe you would want for your company. People wouldn’t want to work with you, and when the public notices you in the eye of the camera, it will destroy your reputation. Secrets should never be kept because it only causes