One reason people lie is to achieve personal power achieving personal power is for someone who pretends to be more confident than he really is for example one of my friends threw a party at his house last month he asked me to come to his party and bring a date however i didn’t have a girlfriend one of my other friends who had a date to go to the party with asked me about my date i didnt want to be embarrassed so i claimed that i had a lot of work to do i said i could easily find a date even better than his if i wanted to i also told him that his date was ugly i achieved power to me feel confident however i embarrassed my friend and his date although this lie me at the time since then it has made me look down on myself