What Are the Best Life Hacks You've Learned From Fiction? One of my favorite psychological tricks comes from a novella by comedian Steve Martin, Shopgirl. It’s a guide to telling lies. There are three essential qualities to an effective lie, says the protagonist Mirabelle at a party: “First, it must be partially true. Second, it must make the hearer feel sorry for you, and third, it must be embarrassing to tell,” says Mirabelle.“Go on,” the room implies.“It must be partially true to be believable.

If you arouse sympathy you’re much more likely to get what you want, and if it’s embarrassing to tell, you’re less likely to be questioned.”For example, Mirabelle says, she wanted to skip work, so she told her boss she had to go to the doctor (which she sometimes did, after all), won his sympathy for her pain, and intimated, embarrassingly, that it was a “gynecological problem.”By this point in Shopgirl, we know Mirabelle is sad, shy, and lonely, which makes her advice either suspect or authoritative. And you just know Steve Martin must have tried this one in real life.

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