The approach has a name, it's called "radical honesty". The idea is this: we are often surprised as to how things turn up, yet at the same time, we are not fully engaged with the world around us, we hold back. The inner world is not expressed fully out in the environment so the environment responds to the projection of you, instead of the real you. No wonder why things don't turn up as you'd expect, they favor the projection. What if you'd be completely honest and direct with everyone and always act as you feel, holding nothing back. Then the world would respond to that instead, everything would have direct causality to your actions. You wouldn't look back to think how you should have acted, since there is only one way to act, truthfully and honestly, and any outcome would be the result of that and then you'd have complete responsibility for your actions and the character you have built. It is probably a spectrum, the far other extreme can be considered psychopathy. When all of your actions are pre-examined thoroughly, you're never trully out in the world. In any case, it's a good experiment for everyone to try, you'd be surprised. Congrats to the OP for figuring it out.