You Don't Intentionally Lies?

Alex says three times in a minute that he nt lie on purpose and that heis right 90 % of the time. Glen glens decides to open with a question predicated on how alex was a handsome young man. It's basically asking, did you make a conscious decision to not be as rich and famous as your talents would make you deserving of being? Or is it just your instinctual nature to be a rebel who questions the power structure?