one thing this means is that if you need to engage in a goal-oriented interaction, think about & plan for downside risks and failure modes *well beforehand*. when you're actually going into the interaction, you should be thinking about nothing but successful interactions like it
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if you have no experience of success in the type of interaction, you should be thinking about examples of success you've witnessed. failing that, success you can vaguely imagine. this is because failure modes are themselves attractor basins in the phase space of cognition
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so if you are thinking about failure, if you are worrying about failure, you are *running failure software*, and the cognitive processes which the other party does you the honor of sharing with you will become infected with failure and lead them to facilitate your failure
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This is particularly true when lying. When you're in an interaction where you need to lie you shouldn't be thinking about how to convince the other party - you need to be utterly convinced yourself.
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concur telling the truth means not having to remember anything
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Just make sure to craft your truth appropriately and you won't ever need to lie.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *inhale* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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found the person raised by one or more malignant narcissists
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tbh my parents are committed to honesty, and are pretty excellent folks the *rest* of the South, though...
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