Don't take this the wrong way, but in my experience, people who feel they are morally obliged to "always tell the truth and nothing but the truth" have low social skills. Whereas the primary goal of the lying woman from the article is to make people feeling comfortable around her, by withholding the naked truth from them.
You exemplify that with the "nice to meet you" and "pretty good, how are you" examples. You don't want to act weird, so you lie.
From my own very biased experience of having lots of close friends and never a dull moment, all whilst working alone for most of the day in my apartment... perhaps I do have low social skills, but it doesn't seem to affect me in a negative manner.
I choose to know a small number of people very well. It doesn't interest me to know a large number of people hardly at all.
If I wanted to "up my social skills" and "gain tons of 'friends'" I could easily do that I would think. Simply by mimicing the flaky personality described in the article and sure, everyone loves a yes-man.
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Don't take this the wrong way, but in my experience, people who feel they are morally obliged to "always tell the truth and nothing but the truth" have low social skills. Whereas the primary goal of the lying woman from the article is to make people feeling comfortable around her, by withholding the naked truth from them.
You exemplify that with the "nice to meet you" and "pretty good, how are you" examples. You don't want to act weird, so you lie.
From my own very biased experience of having lots of close friends and never a dull moment, all whilst working alone for most of the day in my apartment... perhaps I do have low social skills, but it doesn't seem to affect me in a negative manner.
I choose to know a small number of people very well. It doesn't interest me to know a large number of people hardly at all.
If I wanted to "up my social skills" and "gain tons of 'friends'" I could easily do that I would think. Simply by mimicing the flaky personality described in the article and sure, everyone loves a yes-man.