Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
Making a wrong choice early may limit making the right choice later.
In my experience there are few people who are of true genius. There are many who are gifted, but most of the world’s work and great things come from ordinary people with a talent which they develop.
The payment of tithing seems to facilitate keeping the spiritual battery charged in order to make it through the times when the spiritual generator has been idle or not working.