What's up Spartans? It's Dr. L here, your Chief Mind Doc, it's Spartan Mind,

where I'm here every Wednesday looking to increase your mental resiliency and toughness

so that you can not only focus on your physical performance out on that race

course but show up in life in the way that you want to.

All right, so today we're talking about the oh so uncomfortable topic

of lying and how lying impacts you and your brain. All right, so let's start with the brain first.

The thing about lying is, the more that you lie,

the more that your brain habituates to the lie

and becomes desensitized to it, right? So think about it this way.

The first lie that you tell may be rather uncomfortable, right? But then you lie again and

it's only sort of uncomfortable and then you lie again and it's only sort of uncomfortable and then you lie again and it's not quite as uncomfortable and then another lie and it's less uncomfortable

So lying it can kind of take on this snowball effect and the more that you do it,

the more that your brain becomes desensitized to it and then eventually lying

isn't uncomfortable anymore.

It actually maybe makes you more comfortable, okay?

So that's the way it can impact the brain.

Now, here's the way that it can impact your sense of self.

The more that you lie, you reserving space for a false sense of self.

You are basically not only telling yourself but telling other individuals that you can't be who you really are meant to be

and you need to be somebody else and present that somebody else that false sense of self to those individuals out of your sort of sphere right so

out here so how that's unhelpful is that we truly as human beings are all meant to be a very

unique individual person all on our own but when we deny ourselves that right

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