How to Spot a Liar, Especially if it’s You.

Throw Yourself Off Your Game

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“Lying is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship,” wrote Sam Harris. Whether it’s small fibs to spare someone’s feelings or more breaches of trust, we see examples of dishonesty every day. Pamela Meyer, in her book Liespotting and a fantastic TED talk on the subject, claims that we’re on the…