If you are too lazy to turn on your head, you can turn on your fears and force yourself to answer honestly on pain of death …
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Self-deception is an unconscious deception of oneself, the desire to pass off wishful thinking and present reality as one wants to see it. Self-deception is personal glitches and dreams, life in dreams and hopes.
Self-deception can be both a random, situational moment, and, to varying degrees, a conscious strategy of behavior in life.
Reasons for self-deception — and how not to lie to yourself
Those who are prone to feelings of guilt and self-accusations are more likely to engage in self-deception. In this case, self-deception acts as a psychic defense against self-accusations.
Also, cowards who are used to being afraid are more likely to lie to themselves. Work with your fears, stop being afraid and answer yourself honestly.
Those who rarely think on their own, who are too lazy to turn on their heads, live in fog and self-deception. If you are too lazy to turn on your head, you can turn on your fears and force yourself to answer honestly on pain of death …
It is easy to confuse in yourself those who look at everything only personally and subjectively. In this case, the direction of development will be the development of the habit of the third and fourth positions of perception. When you look at everything from the outside or make a decision based on perspectives, clarity comes faster.
People often make choices they don’t want to admit to themselves, and as a psychological defense they cover them up with far-fetched, fake excuses. Who wants, looks for opportunities. Who does not want, looking for excuses. Once invented excuses are so plausible that it is impossible to overturn them from the outside, only the person himself can admit to a lie. It also happens differently when a person deceives himself for so long and successfully that it is already difficult to figure it out without outside help. Strong and responsible people in this case can act as educators. Sometimes this happens in psychological training.
Development direction
Stop blaming yourself, master the exercise «Mistake!». Set goals for yourself and get busy. See How to work on yourself.
A good remedy for self-deception is to remember the position of acceptance, the author’s position in life and include conscious behavior.