Why Your Lying Kid is a Genius

When your four-year-old looks like she just lost a fistfight with a Hershey bar and blames the dog—despite the suspicious chocolate handprint on its fur —don't ground her. Congratulate her. On this episode of Dumbify, we explore why that shameless, physically impossible lie is actually a massive cognitive milestone. We dive into the science of "semantic leakage control" and explain why your little liar isn't a future sociopath, but a genius whose brain is running a sophisticated counterintelligence operation.

Join us as we entrap five-year-olds with the "Barney theme song" , hand disappointed kids bars of soap to test their manners , and reveal why not even social workers or police officers can tell if a toddler is lying. We’ll discuss why the "boring truth" is easy, but a good lie requires the heavy lifting of executive function and working memory. Tune in to learn why "fabulation" is the new honesty, and why you should actually be proud the next time you get played by a preschooler.

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Dumbify celebrates ideas so weird, wrong, or wildly impractical… they just might be brilliant. Hosted by David Carson, a serial entrepreneur behind multiple hundred-million-dollar companies and the go-to secret weapon for companies looking to unlock new markets through unconventional thinking. Dumbify dives into the messy, counter-intuitive side of creativity — the “dumb” ideas that built empires, broke rules, and ended up changing everything.