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023: Ask Andi series—Lying May Be Your Brain’s Fault

Posted on by Andrea Simon

 

Eighth episode of Ask Andi

Here is the 8th episode of my Ask Andi series—short 15 minute podcasts every Friday where I take a question and then offer tools, tips and strategies to help you re-think it and tackle it in new ways. In today’s episode, I talk about how as humans, we are born to lie. In fact, lies to some extent keep our relationships, even our cultures and societies, functioning. I also examine the question: Should we always be entirely truthful?

In this episode, I discuss:

  • Your “story-brain,” aka the reason you lie
  • How often people lie and how you’re included from those numbers
  • What a lie really is
  • The five rules of lying
  • Shared perceptions of reality
  • Whether lack of truth always equalls a lie
  • If our relationships would thrive without lying
  • Using lies to solidify the abstraction of reality

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