How Useful Is Your Lie?

Sometimes a lie can be useful. Find out when in this mini podcast.

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

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Transcript

How Useful Is Your Lie?

Here’s a question worth chewing on: What do you know for sure . . . that maybe you’re not so sure about?

Is there something you declare as “the truth” that—if you looked closer—might actually be a well-polished lie? A lie you’ve told yourself so many times, it just sounds like truth now?

Maybe it’s time to separate truth... from usefulness.

Let’s be honest: most of what we believe isn’t solid gold truth—it’s more like gold-plated opinion. Just because we believe something . . . doesn’t make it real.

Case in point: My mom used to call that floating springtime pollen “money feathers.” She’d say, “If you catch one and put it in your pocket, you’ll come into money.”

Now, I’m embarrassed to admit this, but many decades later, I still grab those fuzzy floaters and shove ’em in my pocket. Have I gotten rich doing it? No. Do I still believe it’ll bring me cash? Not really. But you know what? It’s useful.

It gives me a moment to remember my mom. And that moment is worth more than money.

So here's the real question: How useful is your truth?

Is it helping you connect with others—or is it just a wall you hide behind?

Do you have the one “true” religion? Okay—but what happens when someone else says they’ve got the one true one too?

Now it’s not about faith—it’s about separation. And let’s be clear: This isn’t a message about religion. It’s a message about usefulness.

If your so-called truth is causing conflict, division, or isolation—and you can’t back it up with reality—maybe it’s not all that useful.

A wise voice once told me: “Truth has no opposite.”

If two people are arguing over truth but neither can prove it, then guess what? Nobody’s holding the real thing.

And what about that classic line: “If you put your mind to it, anything is possible”? Sounds inspiring . . . until reality shows up with receipts.

Still, if that belief helps someone break through their limits and do something great—then maybe that “lie” has a purpose. Maybe it’s useful.

What we need more of is people saying: “Here’s what worked for me. ”No lectures. No truth claims. Just . . . experience.

So maybe today’s a good day to inspect the truths you’re carrying around. Keep the ones that bring connection, growth, and peace. And maybe—just maybe—retire the ones that only spark arguments or build fences.

Here’s a little red flag to watch for: If you catch yourself starting a sentence with, “I’m a firm believer that . . .” Chances are, you’re about to share your version of truth—not the truth.

From where I sit, the only thing I can really call truth . . . is reality. Reality has no opposite. And learning to respond to reality—rather than making up alternate ones in our head—might be one of the most useful things we’ll ever do.

But then again . . . I can’t even prove that’s true.

All the best,

John