1: Lying
Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind
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The Positive Side of Lying
I think I used to be a good liar and I've got progressively worse as I've got older. When I was little, I told my teacher I was on in a fairy disaster but couldn't remember the name of the ship so said it was the Titanic. And she just went along with this. But you see, it brings in another aspect to this, which is that that's quite an entertaining thing to say and that's impossible. People want to be entertained by someone's story. We think it's all negative. So it keeps us together like we shouldn't be too down on lying. It's a very... Pro no. 1!
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