It has been 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. This is a short series on “Five Ways to Respond to...
Don’t have enough time to read the entire 10 Ways Lies Grow series? Here’s an executive summary below including an excerpt from each. The title of each link is the “Way...
This is the 10th and final stage of the 10 Ways Lies Grow series. Click here for the first in the series, and here for the last one if...
I’ve been walking through the 10 Ways Lies Grow. Go here for the first one. Last time I talked through the stage 8 of When Lies Grow, and explored...
Go here for the start of this series on 10 Ways Lies Grow. The last stage involved letting other people start to tell the lie for you. A pretty...
A lie grows when they rationalize it, get away with it, tell it twice, get good at it, tell those they love, and start to believe it themselves. At...
In the first five stages of the 10 Ways Lies Grow we’ve seen that they start by rationalizing it, getting away with it, telling it twice, getting good at...
A lie grows when they rationalize it, get away with it, tell it twice, and then they get good at it. They become a full-blown liar at this stage,...
There are many ways lies grow. I’ve been reviewing 10 ways they grow in this series. I’m presenting these as “steps” or “stages” in a narrative, but people skip...
After a person has rationalized a lie and then gotten away with it—they now have reaped some of the short-term rewards of lying. Nobody would ever lie in the...
The first way someone finds that a lie grows is when they rationalize it. They trade their integrity away in order to escape pain or consequences. After this, the...
It turns out that Lance Armstrong was lying–and lying big. He not only lied to his fans and those entities that govern his sport, he lied to his friends,...