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Lying

Name: Lying
Rating: 5 (10 reviews)
Author: Sam Harris
ISBN: 9781940051000

Sam Harris · 2013 · 105 pages

As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption--even murder and genocide--generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie.

In Lying, best-selling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie. He focuses on "white" lies--those lies we tell for the purpose of sparing people discomfort--for these are the lies that most often tempt us. And they tend to be the only lies that good people tell while imagining that they are being good in the process.

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Naval Ravikant
“Sam Harris, who you mentioned earlier, is great.”↗
Elon Musk
“Read Lying, the new book by my friend Sam Harris. Excellent cover art and lots of good reasons not to lie!”↗
Chris Williamson
“A 1-hour read on why you should never lie. Hugely transformational for me over the last few years. An easy, compelling insight into the nature of lying, why you do it, plus the negative effects it has on you and others. There’s no reason not to pick this one up. Non-Fiction 20”↗
Austen Allred
“You want a comms strategy that wins in 2021? 1. Read this book 2. Be very kind but always completely 100% honest in every conversation. Even when the truth is uncomfortable or confrontational. We forgive all kinds of vice. We do not forgive deceit.”↗
A. J. Jacobs
“A great book.”↗
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