63. Kindness or Deception: What kind of lies do you tell?
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Kindness or Deception: What Kinds of Lies Do You Tell?
We all tell lies. Sometimes to others. Sometimes even to ourselves. Sometimes to protect someone else’s feelings, or to make ourselves feel better. When is lying considered a kindness, and when is it considered a deception? Tune in as Monica and Michael discuss the profound impact of the lies we tell, why kindness trumps truth, and how not all lies are created equal.
We have to ask ourselves if the lies we tell, whether to others or ourselves, actually make our reality better. – Michael Berg
Further readings:
The Lies that We Tell Ourselves by Jon Frederickson
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast, episode 63. Today we're going to talk about lies. |
| 0:07.7 | No, we're not. Yes, we are. Stop lying. Which I'm really excited about. Let's just go on a little |
| 0:14.2 | journey here. Yes, I love journeys. Psychologist Bella de Palo conducted a study of 147 people between the ages of 18 and 71. |
| 0:23.6 | They were instructed to keep a diary of all the untruths they told over the course of a week. |
| 0:29.4 | According to the research findings, most people lie once or twice a day. |
| 0:33.8 | In reality, most people probably lie more because it's reasonable to assume that people lied about how often they lie in a study about lies. |
| 0:42.4 | Right? |
| 0:42.5 | But you would guess that people on average lie more, unless you're really conscious and you're really trying to evolve and change. |
| 0:51.2 | I'd say there's probably more. |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.9 | And also, I think when I think when I think about lies, it's not just, |
| 1:00.6 | if you ask me, is the sky blue and it's saying the sky is black, right? That's an obvious lie. |
| 1:05.8 | But the other, which I think is maybe even more insidious type of lies, |
| 1:10.5 | are the things that we tell ourselves, right? |
| 1:14.6 | So I'll read a story a little bit later, hopefully that... |
| 1:17.1 | I feel like you're like jumping way in deep. |
| 1:19.3 | Okay, well, no, no, but I'm saying because you ask the question |
| 1:21.3 | how many times people lie, I think we live a lot of lies. |
| 1:25.4 | Yes, we also tell lies, but we also live a lot of lies. |
| 1:30.4 | For sure. |
| 1:31.4 | And I think that's a lot of the work that we do with people. |
| 1:33.4 | It's actually bringing to focus the ways they lie to themselves or the truth that they think |
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