THE MOST TRUTHFUL BOOK OF LIES

THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT LIES.

Not the malicious or harmless ones, but a far more dangerous and persistent form of falsehood: the lies we tell ourselves—unknowingly, because we have mistaken them for our very identity, our core truth and our guiding principle.

ALWAYS BE NICE TO EVERYONE.

BE PERFECT.

HARD WORK ALWAYS PAYS.

These may appear to be truisms but, in fact, are survival strategies born out of vulnerability, fear and pain. The person being nice all the time learns that their purpose has all along been to mediate and keep everyone happy, mostly at their own expense. A perfection-chaser realizes that excellence is not a permanent state but a learned behaviour. Those who champion the hard-work culture forget that it normalizes burnout, stifles innovation and sets countless people up for profound disappointment.

Ankit Jhamb’s The Most Truthful Book of Lies is about understanding the history of these lies, and the many others—where they came from, why we adopted them—and choosing to let them go. Treat it like a tool that gives you the courage to question the lies, dismantle them, and arrive at the most profound and liberating truth you will ever know:

The truth of who you are.