You're your best bet, the best bet you have, virtually all the time, is to try not to lie to yourself. In my first book, a 12 rules for life, i said, tell the truth, or at least do not lie,. I mean, can you tell the truth? You'd have to know the truth. And in the second book, the new one, rule five is, do not do things that you hate, which is also a kind of lie. The danger to deceit is that you'll pathologize those unconscious mechanisms a you because as you practise thing, imagine you practise a particular form of untruth and that becomes your habitual way of looking at

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