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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Full Money.

Welcome to Motley Full Money, I'm Chris Held this week, it's our Labor Day weekend

special.

We'll get some career advice from a former mobster, but we start by talking about the

business of lying.

Dan Airelli is a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University

and the author of two bestsellers, predictably irrational and the upside of irrationality.

His new book is The Honest Truth about dishonesty, how we lie to everyone, especially ourselves.

Dan, welcome back.

Oh my pleasure.

So we're all liars?

What is going on?

Wait, wait, not you, not you, not the people, not the people.

Oh, thank you, thank you.

Now here is the question, I mean, you probably think of yourself as an honest, wonderful caring

human being, right?

No question about it.

No question.

But if you actually went ahead during a regular day and you counted how many times you lie,

what do you think that number would be?

I think it would be in a single digit.

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