How To Be A Good Liar

Lying is bad when you do it to hurt someone else.  But there are three specific occasions when it is perfectly acceptable to lie. That's the topic of discussion today on the 60 Second Sales Show.

Here is the transcript from this show:

Hi there, everyone. Welcome to another edition of The 60 Second Sale Show. I'm Dave Lorenzo, and here with us we have our fantastic and talented producer, Nancy Pop. Good morning, Nancy. How are you today?

Good morning. I'm doing great. How about you?

I am absolutely fantastic. Today we have a great topic we're going to talk about. The topic is how to be a good liar. Now, Nancy, I know you are a fabulous and virtuous person, but have you ever had occasion to tell someone a lie? Even just a little white lie, like a little fib?

Of course. It's only natural.

It's only natural. Of course. Now, when, for example, would you tell someone something that wasn't true?

I think the first instance that comes to mind is when maybe you're running late to work or something, because you slept in, and you're embarrassed to just admit that you slept in. Something small like that.

Right. You're embarrassed. It's kind of a face saving move. It's like a self-preservation move. That's one of the times when all of us have, in the past, every one of us, have told a lie. We've told something that wasn't true. We're going to get into the three times when we tell lies. The three most frequent times when we tell lies. We're going to talk about why we do it, and we're going to talk about how to do it in a way that is not going to do damage to someone else. Really, in the end, when it comes to lying, and this is such an explosive topic. When it comes to lying, the reason that we teach our kids not to lie, the reason that we're told not to lie, is because we're afraid we're going to do harm to someone else.

If it weren't to do harm to anyone, would it be okay to lie? Don't answer that. We're going to get to that in just a moment. Before we do, I want to cover just a couple of things that are going on today that have made this topic kind of top of mind for me, and a couple of other things that I've noticed that really have gotten under my skin. Everybody seems to like it, Nancy, when I kind of use this as a cathartic experience. I use this platform. I use the 60 Second Sale Show as a cathartic experience to kind of clear the air and make myself feel better. I'll tell you, frankly, it's cheaper than therapy, and I don't mind doing it.

Today, one of the things that I am absolutely livid about is, I posted something on Instagram. Those of you who follow me on Instagram, @TheDaveLorenzo, I posted one of these pithy quotes. I used to quote other people. Now, I just quote myself. It's fun, and nobody can dispute the source, right? I quote myself, and yesterday, I quoted myself, and in the quote, I made a typo. It was a typo. Not a big deal. Quite frankly, I make a lot of typos. I write really quickly. If you go to DaveLorenzo.com, that site has been up for, like, three months. I've got 105 articles on there already. I write a lot, and when you write as quickly as I do, you're going to make mistakes.

I get out of the shower yesterday. Something comes to mind. I put up a little pithy quote. I drop it in there, and I post it. 26, 27 people like it in the first 10 minutes. I don't pay any attention to it. This morning, I go to post something else, or I posted a video last night after that. I go to post something else this morning, I notice some guy makes a comment, some jerk makes a comment, and the comment is that I've damaged my credibility irreparably by making the typo. Now, my friends, the typo was, I was missing an apostrophe. I missed an apostrophe. It's not like I completely blew a word. I missed an apostrophe. If that damages my credibility with you,