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Gabor Mate: The Childhood Lie That’s Ruining All Of Our Lives

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

CHAPTER

The Pathological Liars Have Learned to Lies to Survive

Nobody's born a liar, but there are no congenital liars. If we end up pretending in any way at all to the extent that we do, it's because we have to learn that's what we must do to survive. The German philosopher writer Nietzsche said, people lie their way out of reality who have been hurt by reality. And so I've lied. Like when I had my shopping addiction, I relied every day to my wife. But even afterwards, when she stopped trying to change my behavior, I still couldn't as I was so ashamed of it.

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