This Is The One Time It’s Okay To Lie, Cheat, And Steal

Lie to your mind, cheat your fears, and steal back the confidence you were born with.

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Something many of us can agree on is the need for better human beings in society — people who exercise empathy and compassion. We do our best to be as close as we can be to both of those things, but we oftentimes fall short. It is in our nature as human beings to want more out of our lives and to want decency filling our circle of influence. So, if this is the case, where does lying, cheating, and stealing come into play?

Lie to your mind. Cheat your fears. Steal back the confidence you were born with.

If I could write a book about every scenario where our fears talk us out of necessary risk, I would be neck-deep in profit, but each of these events would have one thing in common — they all occur in our adulthood (and why wouldn’t they?) No one is writing novels about the adventures of toddlers, but there’s something we can all learn through infant observation and it is this:

We are all born with the birthright of confidence. We do not have an inherent belief in false realities, project what the future will bring, or feel fearful of things that have yet to happen. Instead, babies…