the ultimate self-help strategy, the one practice that could end all your suffering and get you all the way to happiness: Stop lying. Sounds so simple, doesn’t it? And it is, from a logistical standpoint. We’ve already seen that lying is hard and toxic, while truth-telling is relaxing and healthy. Here’s the rub: if you stop lying, you’ll eventually, inevitably violate the rules of a culture that matters to you.
