“ We lie to reflect the aspirational goals that we unconsciously know we will not uphold. ”
One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.
~ Cortney S. Warren
We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change.
The truth is that pain is not inherently bad for us, pain is information.
The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.
