Making Sense | Sam Harris

Don’t lie. Or if you’re going to lie, don’t lie to yourself. The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. We don’t want to look at the role our own behaviors play in our failings (in our successes, sure), so we tend, by my observation, to claim responsibility for our wins and blame the losses on conditions beyond our control or on the fa

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Bullshit is a different phenomenon than lying, as lying attempts to influence while being aware of what is true, bullshit on the other hand attempts to influence without any consideration about what is true, or what truth even means.