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12 Rules Thousand Oaks: Truth in Speech, and Meaning

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Don't Tell the Truth

If you have an instinct that's capable of manifesting itself as a guiding instinct, the last thing you want to do is practice to warp it. You build new neurological mechanisms when you develop a habit and that will twist and distort the manner in which the world manifests itself to you. And so well, that's why lying is a great sin, so to speak. That's why so many religious traditions have a incredibly tight stricture against lying. Don't practise what you don't want to become.

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