Does Lying take skills or is it based on beliefs?

[Rhood]

If it takes skills, it means someone mentored or taught another inexperienced person on how to get better at lying. After practicing many times, the inexperienced person eventually becomes a master liar.

If it's based on beliefs, that means someone has mastered the art of lying at a very young age after getting away from the truth many times without getting caught.

Which is the correct answer?

 

[Osculater]

If it takes skills, it means someone mentored or taught another inexperienced person on how to get better at lying. After practicing many times, the inexperienced person eventually becomes a master liar.

If it's based on beliefs, that means someone has mastered the art of lying at a very young age after getting away from the truth many times without getting caught.

Which is the correct answer?

Takes skill or are born with it

 

[TheTickG]

If it takes skills, it means someone mentored or taught another inexperienced person on how to get better at lying. After practicing many times, the inexperienced person eventually becomes a master liar.

If it's based on beliefs, that means someone has mastered the art of lying at a very young age after getting away from the truth many times without getting caught.

Which is the correct answer?

False question. Beliefs are a skill.

 

[GSP_37]

Practice. Talking practice.

Also takes ill will to lie with a straight face.

 

[Domitian]

Takes skill or are born with it

Yeah it can kind of be both. You can obviously do research on things like body language and be able to recognize it easier. Or you can have a natural intuition to when people are lying and be able to pick up on it.

 

[plataoplombo]

Skill for the most part. You have to put yourself in different kinds of situations with different types of people to master it. The best lies are the ones mixed in truth.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

The best lies are the ones you believe yourself

 

[HereticBD]

Lying itself takes no skills. Anyone can do it. Having people believe those lies is where the skill comes in. Few can make a career out of it. Politicians, lawyers...those motherfuckers are very skilled liars. Although, I think they're a notch below an undercover cop playing for keeps with the cartel or mob, since the stakes are a lot higher. Those guys are next level. Stone cold psychos, that you just thank are on your side and chose to use their powers for good.

To answer the question, I think you're born with it. It's a social skill involving emotion, that you can't really teach.

 

[tgv976]

By your criteria, I'm going with beliefs. Conscience gets in the way for most people. I guess it can be widdled away over time, but takes a lot of work. Some are just naturally gifted for shitty behavior with much less of that or none at all as long as it benefits themself.

 

[El Panteron]

Depends.
Some lies take some skill or practise, but saying something you don't mean per se is not complex or challenging at all.

People's brain aren't super good at reasoning based on proof and trying to falsify theories. Our idea of truth is based more on recognising a certain pattern repeating itself. In this sense the human mind is very easy to trick: it doesn't look for the truth but just what event is presenting to it more frequently.

 

[Berserker13]

usually both

 

[Sweater of AV]

 

[aerius]

 

[Jack Reacheround]

I love that scene. And that entire two part episode. Amazing stuff.