Who do you trust?

There’s one high profile individual who occasionally blogs about trust and kindness. It all seems so honest, and so true. But some of us now know that underneath the sheep clothing there’s a wolf. He’ll do just the opposite of what he preaches, when the opportunity requires it. So how do you trust people, knowing that two-faced preachers are out there?

This isn’t an accurate method nor does it work all the time, but it seems to me like the best way to weed out the liars is to find the people who don’t have a filter.

There’s a very good saying that if you don’t ever lie, you don’t have to remember what you said. People that lie have to keep a very good mental tally of what they think, vs. what they are tying to pretend to think in pursuit of a narrative. Personally I am very cautious of people that are always positive. I think they are mostly full of shit.

No one is happy and positive 100% of the time unless they are trying to hide something very deep inside, and if they are able to hide something this well, you’ve got to be careful - you can never trust that what comes out of their mouth is truth. If they lie to someone else, then why not you?

On the other hand, people that swear and have no filter, people that just tell it like it is, they are less likely to fool you. They might still have a greater goal, they might still talk with a narrative in mind, but at the very least they will be the type of people to punch you in the face, instead of stabbing you in the dark, in the back.

That’s it. That’s all i’ve got for today.
If you are going to pick someone to trust, pick a straight shooter.
It might not always work out, but your adds are better this way.

-Kirill.