SELF-DELUSION
MASS CONFUSION INSIDE YOUR HEAD “the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.” The ego’s goal is to persuade us to believe things that are patently false, untrue, to create a distorted reality so that it can protect us. To bend and warp what we think we know and believe is its way of keeping us where it wants us – unsure, on edge, enmeshed in self-doubt. Men will exaggerate thousands of things. Collectively we misremember most events that we experience as if the odds were always in our favor. We reconfigure and reconstruct and hyperbolically color and edit and embellish. Everyone loves a good story. That does mean we live a good one. Nostalgia takes us back and fills us with a feeling of how - perhaps we wished we felt. In actuality, the truth is hidden in a reality that we may not want to process or accept. Hindsight is 20/20 through rose-colored spectacles but there are shades of grey that we don’t see because we may not be able to come to terms w...