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...
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...
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,...