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the shortcut that always takes the scenic route through your own destruction
means The act or quality of being untruthful, deceptive, or untrustworthy — lying, cheating, or otherwise failing to deal straight.
from Built from the noun 'honesty' plus the prefix 'dis-' meaning 'not' or 'apart from.' 'Honesty' traces back through Old French 'honesté' to Latin 'honestas' — honor, respectability, decency — from 'honos' (honor). So 'dishonesty' is literally 'un-honorableness,' the stripping away of that good repute. The word arrived in English in the late Middle Ages, when 'honesty' itself could still mean chastity or seemliness as much as truth-telling, and only later narrowed to the matter of being straight with one another.
- brain cost
- Lying lights up more neural regions than truth-telling
- slippery slope
- Small lies desensitize the brain to bigger ones
- the tell
- Liars often over-detail to seem credible
- memory tax
- Fabrications are harder to recall consistently than facts
- polygraph myth
- Lie detectors measure stress, not actual deception
enron — energy company that fabricated $586 million in profits before collapsing in 2001
theranos — blood testing startup that falsely claimed to have revolutionary technology, shut down 2018
wells fargo fake accounts — bank created 3.5 million unauthorized accounts from 2002-2015 to meet sales targets