This is a YouTube video titled "The problem with telling a lie." containing a monologue or personal reflection recorded on April 16, 2024, discussing the speaker's personal principle of never telling lies and the emotional and cognitive burden associated with lying. The content is a single-speaker narrative without indication of multiple participants or the involvement of Alicia Mackey Huber.
So the number one principle that I follow is I do not tell lies. Ever. The tiniest lie that I can detect, I will not tell it to myself or to anyone else. And there are studies that support this. Now, it's energetically really taxing to tell lies to people because it feels bad. And then you have to remember it. And then you get stressed that you probably didn't remember which lie you told to which person. And in my early 20s, I lied all the damn time to make sure it wasn't my fault. It's a common thing in teenagers. Maybe I was immature, but at a certain point, you're not going to find me now saying, I can't make it to the airport to pick you up. I don't say it anymore. I say I'm not going to make it because I can't.
