When somebody accuses us of doing something wrong that we didn't actually do. I think intuitively, instinctively,

we've all got this batch of four or five defense techniques that we just have on

speed dial and we run through them really quickly, especially if we're hyper sure that we didn't do anything

wrong. And one of those is probably the alibi things, so let's say you're getting accused of stealing cookies, You ate all the cookies out of the

cookie jar and you weren't supposed to. That seemed innocuous. I went through like

four or five things in my brain that were actually like really bad crimes and I

think would make it far less fun for us to game it out.

So we're going to go with something easy, stealing cookies, you get accused of it.

Well, speed dial defense number one would probably be alibi.

I wasn't even here when the cookies got stolen.

It's just simple logic, right?

Speed dial defense number two might be to offer a more plausible theory.

Well, there are a whole bunch of crumbs all around Kyle's seat right there and he has chocolate chip

smudges on his shirt and his lips. Maybe it was Kyle. A third defense that I think we keep on

speed dial is the appeal to our track record. If you don't steal things from people,

you might just be like, I don't steal things. You all know me. I don't take people's stuff without

permission. I did not steal the cookies. But there's a fourth one that I think we all have on speed dial as well and

this is a little more complex technique but it's very effective. This is the one where we

point out the flaws in our accusers assumption of our motives.

Are you tracking with me there?

So in this case, let's say that you are Celiac

and you just got accused of stealing a bunch of chips- hoi cookies and eating them all.

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