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How To Get By In A Hostile World, Wednesday
"So if there's anything I found out in our first class, it's that a lot of you are really terrible liars," Atton said. "Well, not really terrible; if you were really terrible, I'd have figured out the exact truth without trying. But you're bad enough to make any sentient with half a brain go 'I'm pretty sure you're hiding something', which is about the deadliest sentence in the galaxy."
He sat down on his desk. It was kind of his thing.
"We've already talked about making your first impressions work for you - that's one kind of actually effective lying. Let people believe what they want to believe anyway, maybe feed the fire a little bit, and you'll slip under everyone's radar. Which, when you have a secret, is pretty much all you really need."
He shrugged. "Well, unless your thing is making up really weird lies and then people just stare at you." Not that he knew anyone like that. Sparkle. "But your best bet is to come up with something you can actually make yourself believe in."
"Anyway, this week, you're going to try and lie to your fellow students," he said. "We're taking a page from Ethics class and playing two truths and a lie. You tell the class two things about you that are true, while you lie about the one thing. If you're smart, you use the truths to hide the lie. Don't bring up anything you don't want everyone else to find out about as a lie, by the way, because that's just asking for trouble."
Atton crossed his arms, finally. "My name is Atton Rand, I was orphaned when I was about your age, and I was born on the most peaceful planet in the galaxy. There, that's mine. Now let's hear yours."
He sat down on his desk. It was kind of his thing.
"We've already talked about making your first impressions work for you - that's one kind of actually effective lying. Let people believe what they want to believe anyway, maybe feed the fire a little bit, and you'll slip under everyone's radar. Which, when you have a secret, is pretty much all you really need."
He shrugged. "Well, unless your thing is making up really weird lies and then people just stare at you." Not that he knew anyone like that. Sparkle. "But your best bet is to come up with something you can actually make yourself believe in."
"Anyway, this week, you're going to try and lie to your fellow students," he said. "We're taking a page from Ethics class and playing two truths and a lie. You tell the class two things about you that are true, while you lie about the one thing. If you're smart, you use the truths to hide the lie. Don't bring up anything you don't want everyone else to find out about as a lie, by the way, because that's just asking for trouble."
Atton crossed his arms, finally. "My name is Atton Rand, I was orphaned when I was about your age, and I was born on the most peaceful planet in the galaxy. There, that's mine. Now let's hear yours."