I must confess, I have said some pretty stupid things in my life. At times those statements were made simply because I was not well enough informed. What is more disturbing is when those stupid statements are a result of ego - situations where you pretend to be better informed than you actually are or situations where you try to act like you are “in the know” when you aren’t. Often when we do this we are trying build ourselves up in someone else’s eyes or are trying to impress others. But in truth, many of those statements are lies.