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Please Don't Lie to Yourself

Humans are masters of self-deception. We fool ourselves into believing things that are false and we refuse to believe things that are true. I was new in mumbai , few friends i found here were in phantasm of themselves. one of them use to lie about being occupied in work and meetings even when he is purely doing nothing, soon i realised he is lying to himself much more than to everyone else . that's when I really started delving into the topic of self-deception. And it rocked my world. I saw it everywhere, in everyone. We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, such as how much we really ate today, and why we didn't list our actual height and weight on our driver's license. We lie to reflect our aspirational goals: "I'll only have one glass of wine tonight," - when I know I'm drinking at least three. We lie to uphold social ideals "I never have sexual tho