How to learn to lie well

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The best deceivers lie, oddly enough, rarely and never admit it. You will learn about other secrets of the art of lying in this article.

As a child, we were taught that you can't lie. Never to anyone. However, life, as often happens, negates school lessons and stubbornly pokes us into the fact that you cannot live without lies. And the tireless British researchers of everything in the world also add: it turns out that any adult in his life tells lies about 88 thousand times!

Of course, the list of the most common deceptions includes, of course, everyone's favorite "Glad to see you", "No money, I am now broke myself" and "Thank you, I really really like it." That is, everyone lies, to everyone and always. But some do it well, making life easier for themselves and delighting others, while others do it not very much, bringing only pain and suffering to everyone around.

So how do you learn to cheat easily, beautifully and safely? In this case, as in any other, there are secrets and unwritten laws.

Small and big lies require equal attention

This is one of the main rules that a future master of lies must learn. Each of your deceptions, regardless of its meaning, you will have to remember forever and build your further behavior based on this. However, it seems to some that it is good enough to remember only the most important deceptions, and lying on trifles does not deserve any attention. This is what inexperienced liars usually burn on. Having piled up a whole mountain of untruths, they then forget what, to whom and when they spoke.

Therefore, try to memorize well every, even the smallest, stroke. And since human memory is not unlimited and you definitely won't be able to remember everything, the main rule follows from this:

Lie as little as possible. This is the only way to achieve credibility.

Use distraction and switching

A true master of deception, like a Spanish matador, draws his sword only at the decisive moment and delivers just one blow. The rest of the time, he skillfully distracts the victim's attention with the help of skillful movements with a red cloak. In the art of lying, similar techniques are used, and sometimes skillfully switching the interlocutor's attention to another object or changing the topic of conversation generally saves you from having to lie. Think over the line of your behavior in advance so that you don't have to tell a lie at all. Just don't overdo it, because inept possession of a mulet can cost the matador his life!

Practice

In any case, practice is needed, and even in such an important thing as deception, you definitely cannot do without it. But since it is not very humane to practice on living people, we will train on ourselves. Stand in front of a mirror and repeat your lie until it looks completely natural. Ideally, you should convince yourself of the truth of your words.

The perfect lie is one that you yourself could believe.

Never make excuses or confess

If you are suspected of lying, then the worst thing you can do is to start making up more and more lies for your justification. If the building staggers, then it is necessary to flee from it, and not urgently finish building new floors. Therefore, answer all accusations with proud, offended silence or a transition to another topic.

As for the "voluntary confession", it is tantamount to a direct shot in the temple. There are often situations when the truth is equally harmful to both parties and the party accusing you, just like you, in spite of all the harassment, would not want to hear it. Never give up, even when you are pushed against the wall. Stand your ground against logic, evidence, and common sense.

Don't lie to your loved ones and those who love you

You can think over your line of behavior many moves ahead. You can train brilliant acting skills in front of the mirror and develop the most believable intonations. You will provide yourself with an alibi, witnesses, a second line of defense and escape routes.

And they still know the truth. This does not lend itself to scientific explanation, because we do not believe in all these "feels with the heart" and "dreamed in a dream." Let's put it another way: a special non-verbal psychophysiological contact is established between some people, thanks to which they unconsciously feel the slightest changes in each other's state. So you better don't even try. It still won't work.

What secrets of successful deception can our readers share? Honestly!