Last update: July 16, 2016
“It's very easy to deceive someone. I've been doing it for over 50 years and it's extremely simple if you know how to do it, ”said James Randi, one of the best wizards in history, in one of his interviews. However, knowing how to tell lies, so that they seem true, is not an easy feat. Especially since our minds usually feel uncomfortable betraying one of the characteristics most of us would like to retain: sincerity..
On the other hand, when someone tells us a lie and we believe them, it's easy to feel small and vulnerable. We begin to be wary of everyone and build a protective armor that breaks us from within. Precisely for this reason, if we question everything that is transmitted to us, we can miss the opportunity to enjoy the good times with great people.
We soon learn that lying is too easy a way to reap some benefit or gain without effort and avoid reprisals. When the lies come to light, one after the other, we ask ourselves "why is he telling us the truth now?".
Researchers from the University of Los Angeles in 2004 conducted a study whose conclusions revealed that even the most sincere people lie several times a day when they have to carry out their daily responsibilities and duties. The results of this research confirmed that we all lie, not counting when we hide some information, a much more subtle and universally accepted way of lying.
In the field of personal relationships and in the claim to build a social environment in which lies are not the protagonists, experts agree that prevention is one of the solutions. But what if we have already become professional liars? The only way to prevent a person from continuing to lie is to establish consequences that make him or her stop telling lies.
