VIR-I-0017
“I've been exaggerating my accomplishments and it's starting to catch up with me.”
Exaggeration is a slow leak in your credibility. When it catches up with you — and it always does — the gap between reality and the story you've told is suddenly visible to everyone. The fix is simple and painful: start being accurate now, before the gap widens further.
Your Practice
Identify the specific exaggerations you've been living with. Write down the accurate version of each one. You don't have to make public corrections for all of them — but stop repeating the inflated versions. From today, speak accurately about what you've done. Let the real version be enough.
The Architects
“Tricks and Treachery are the Practice of Fools, that have not Wit enough to be honest.”
— Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1740