Opinion

Are we embellishing or simply lying?

Where does one stop and the other one begin?

Ayesha Tariq
3 min readFeb 4, 2021

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These days I can’t tell anymore. Actually I could never tell. I always took what people said at face value. I never thought people lied unless they really needed to.

Photo by Ashkan Forouzani on Unsplash

Let’s take the example of a guy who recently told me about closing a deal with Blackstone, one the…

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Ayesha Tariq

Mother | Macro & Investment Strategist | Co-Founder, MacroVisor | Contributor on Bloomberg & Fox Business | Ex Corporate Banker