Is there any power to honesty these days?

There are many books teaching you that you have to fake it until you make it. Also, they teach you that you need to show to your prospects nice cars, private jets, huge houses, and all that stuff that will communicate “I’ve made it, I can show you how just buy my stuff”.

But the reality is that nowadays most people smell the shit and the lier from a distance and there were numerous cases when the authorities from US and UK arrested smart guys who rented houses, cars, and planes to shoot sales videos which would extract thousands of dollars and pound from…