They Lied To You

You’ve been told that success, productivity, and appearances are the path to happiness. They lied to you. For generations, Western culture has sold us a glittering myth: that more, faster, and louder will finally make us whole. We chased the dream of endless progress, only to find ourselves burnt out, anxious, and quietly aching for something real. We sacrificed authenticity for approval, turned our lives into performances for an invisible audience, and mistook motion for meaning. They Lied to You rips back the curtain on this cultural illusion and dares you to ask the questions no one wants you to ask: Who would you be without the masks? What if all the things you’ve been taught to pursue—status, speed, convenience—are actually the very things robbing you of life’s substance? This book is not a sermon, it’s an awakening. A manifesto. A spark meant to ignite a fire in your soul. Page after page, you’ll confront the myths that bind you and discover the raw, uncomfortable, liberating truth that we are not machines to be optimized—we are human beings meant to live fully, deeply, awake. If you’ve ever felt the gnawing emptiness beneath the hustle, the quiet despair behind the curated smiles, the sense that life must be more than what you’ve been handed—then this is the book you’ve been waiting for. Because the real tragedy isn’t that they lied to you. It’s that you might keep believing it. Don’t. Open these pages. Step into the awakening.