When a surgeon removes a malignant tumor, he doesn’t mark off a large area around the tumor and proceed to cut out that entire portion of the person’s body in order to ensure that the tumor itself is completely removed. Instead, he makes precise cuts in very distinct areas, recognizing that just because other areas of the body are healthy doesn’t mean there’s no tumor to be cut out. If you think of deception as a malignancy, you need to have a surgical tool that allows you to identify it so you can leave all the other areas alone. You need to be able to isolate the malignancy so you can deal
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