I Call Myself an Artist: a short-short story

Lies We Tell Ourselves

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.