Eps 383: Why Lying To Yourself Will Cost You
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Melanie Wagner
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If you see lies emerging in your life, it is best to address them directly - and come to terms with the truth, however uncomfortable it may be. Self-based contentment - delusion is solid, but it is better to face it once and for all, get used to it and build a life after it.
It may not be the greatest thing, like cheating or stealing from your partner, but it will be a sign that you are not being entirely honest. If you generally think of yourself as a good person, it may be difficult to find out whether you are actually lying to yourself. You feel out of tune with something you've done and feel the need to justify it in some way
They are very protective and store information that you do not want to admit or admit to yourself because it is too hard or too painful or something you do not want is true.
So, in a way, self-deception is something that you just can't quite admit, but that doesn't make it any less true. When you see the consequences of a lie, whether in terms of money, time or even life, it can cause serious harm.
The great truth about lying is that we lie to ourselves more than anyone else, and too many of us find it perfectly acceptable to do so. We are lying when we say we have no choice, even though our options have negative consequences. If we promise ourselves that we will change our behavior and then not do it, we are lying. And if you make a resolution that you leave on the track, you're lying to yourself.
If you do this to achieve your personal or professional goals, you will feel the consequences of what you have done and will do in the future, even if you achieve them.
This is one of the reasons why self-deception is a problem: if you are dishonest, you make decisions based on your insecurity, make more decisions, and regret the decisions you make. If you are acting from a place of safety, comfort and honesty, you want to act more because life looks like it for you, not what you really want it to look like. In this way, you lose control of the choice you have made, a choice that leads you to be what you wanted to be, or to live the life you want to live, but no more.
Before you can start to stop lying to yourself, you must be able to identify cases where you are not completely honest with yourself.
Self-deception is easy to spot, because lies are often easier to live with in the short term than the truth. We want to believe lies because we are good at it and because it is often easy for us to "live" with the truths.
Here are four ways you can tell if you're lying to yourself, and here are some of the most common examples of self-deception in the real world.
The hardest part of self - deception, apart from how it practically affects your life - is telling other people the truth. If you look at people's own lives, if you look really honestly, you see that people tell you things that are just not true. So you will maintain the self-deceiving reality that everyone around you has and you will live in a lie.
The calculated nature of lying is reflected in interpersonal reports, and liars take responsibility for balancing the immediate benefit of fraud with the risk of later exposure. This is not a deliberate lie - it does not mean that you are misleading people, but if you cannot tell them what you admit, you are misleading them.
In partnership contexts, people often lie to themselves by exaggerating their own physical attributes. This leads to the resulting self-deception, and while it may initially prove useful to convince an attractive prospect of a coffee, the subsequent disillusionment after the rendezvous shows the risk. Thus, the benefits of deceiving others, such as getting a job, appointments, or a job, often come in the short term, but the long-term risks of deception persist.
Note: This experiment was designed to show that self-deception can have long-term costs, and the results do not suggest that it is inevitably costly, nor are they likely to prove beneficial in any situation. But it does offer evidence that people are more likely to reverse or correct self-deception, even if its costs are expensive. The results of experiment 3 showed that monetary incentives such as conformity , while attenuating prejudices, cannot reduce financial costs of self-deception at the level of incentive used here.