Today I introduced my younger children to the card game “Bullshit.” If you’ve never played it, it’s basically an entire game about lying about what cards you play, and calling each other out. (The kids had a blast being allowed to say the word – only while playing the game, of course.)
Lying is an important skill. Vital, even. Because only by knowing how to lie – practicing it, being good at it – can you start to develop an intuitive sense of when other people are lying to you. Those two skills go hand in hand. And since other people will lie to you in your life, being able to – accurately – call bullshit is an essential survival skill.
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