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Until, one day, you are in your application to expand your already palatial residence, and you decide to use the bludgeon you have previously used вІЂЂЂ litigation claiming racism вІЂЂЂ to make them reverse their decision.ВP Except, for the first time in your life, .

Unfortunately, as you became a banker or a money manager, the markets proved less susceptible to myth-making, less malleable, less willing to cooperate in the extended and ongoing heroic epic of your life.ВP The good guys didn’t always win; your investments sometimes soured.ВP These blots could not be acknowledged, of course, lest you slide back down the slippery slope you had spent your whole life clawing upward.ВP Worse, you began to believe your own myths, and when those near you or under you confronted you with failures, both the message and the messenger were entirely intolerable, so they must feel the fire or your anger, and must be banished from your entire universe, lest their apostasy contaminate others.

That tale-telling brought you an education at Harvard, a place where tale-telling can be its own reward, especially in the non-science disciplines, which positively dote on the spinning of personal myths.ВP It brought you entree into Wall Street, into the world of clubs and societies and retreats, elbow-rubbing and confidence-sharing with those born to privilege, whose good opinion also brought you to Wall Street, where the right tale-telling could bring millions in salary and bonuses.

You didn’t set out to become one.ВP It just happened, and in the manner of its happening you have rationalized to yourself that you are not dishonest, you are just making up for all the disadvantages you face and the obstacles the world placed in your way.ВP You were always clever, intelligent, nimble with words.ВP A wonderful storyteller; it’s your knack, your gift.ВP Perhaps you needed it to overcome your own feelings of unworthiness, or to feed your hunger for acceptance by those whom you saw as having status, power, or money.ВP Your stories brought delight to your listeners, and if properly told, they could move people to open the gates of privilege.ВP That was only a fair payment, wasn’t it?ВP You gave them what they lacked вІЂЂЂ tales of determination and grit, a soupcon of raffish bohemian urban life, the spice of the exotic.ВP In turn, they gave you their embrace, their trust, their money.

Let us suppose, as Leopold Bloom once said to Max Bialystock, that you are a dishonest man.ВP

2) You can’t cheat an honest customer, but it never hurts to try.

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