Sometimes it’s healthy to delude ourselves. Facing all our fears head-on could yield more unhappiness than benefit. And sometimes, a little excess optimism fuels us to bigger accomplishment than clear-eyed rationality would allow.
But certainly, it can help to be aware of whether you want to curb, indulge, or even increase your “irrational exuberance."1
To that end, my Psychology Today article today offers a necessarily incomplete list of possible lies we tell ourselves.
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