Lessons tagged “self-deception”
3 published lessons with this tag.
schema
Intellectual honesty means facing contradictions
The willingness to look directly at your contradictions is the hallmark of serious thinking.
sovereignty
Stated values versus revealed values
What you say you value and what your behavior reveals you value are often different. The gap between stated and revealed values is one of the most important pieces of self-knowledge you can acquire.
meaning
Bad faith and self-deception
Pretending you have no choice when you do is the core existential dishonesty.