A very wise man once told me:
“If you tell the same … lie often enough you start believing it …yourself!”
Of course, his language was a little more colorful and a bit more direct but his admonition has stayed with me for many, many years.
I can’t tell you how many times I have had to retract something I said because I was wrong, and I did not want to perpetuate the myth.
We all make mistakes. That it human nature.
We don’t always own up to them and that’s when the problems arise.
I am often surprised at how easily people can be led to believe something that is fundamentally not true. We ALL want to be agreeable and supportive.
But well-intentioned reinforcement can add unwarranted credence to a fallacy.
And before you know it, EVERYONE accepts it as fact!
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