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So you may know the answer to this. I don't know. I should say I'm not sure when it is that we begin lying to ourselves.

I think it's probably earlier than we imagine and again some of you may know the answer to this.

I don't know when we stop lying to ourselves. It may coincide with our breathing.

You know, it's like when we stop breathing, we finally stop lying to ourselves.

And you know, it doesn't take long. I mean by the time of your middle school or high school,

we get pretty good at catching other people when they're lying.

But we're not so good at catching ourselves when we're lying, not lying to other people.

We're not so good at catching ourselves lying when we're lying to ourselves.

Now, lying to others and please don't misunderstand this.

Lying to others is somewhat understandable. It's not excusable, but at least it's understandable.

But lying to ourselves. Lying to ourselves, it's confusing.

Lying to ourselves, how many selves do we have? I mean who's lying to who?

Now, if you're listening to this thinking, Andy, I don't lie to myself.

Perhaps you just did. So that's the point. It's like, I know.

And the reason you did it and you don't know about it is because you're really, really good at it.

And we're all really good at it. And one of the reasons we're so good at deceiving ourselves,

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