---- anytime you lie, you need to remember the lie to stay consistent, which leads to very degraded thoughts --- when making excuses for why something didn't work, lying is a shortcut. The alternative to lying is understanding the truth. By lying, you lose the opportunity to find unexpected truths for why something didn't work --- People notice if you lie. By lying, you give people the burden of considering if you are lying in every conversation, which is [[computationally unkind]] --- If you nod your head during conversation to something you don't understand, it's a lie. By doing this, you miss the opportunity for the person to explain that concept differently, which could of let you stay in the conversation