Life-lies manipulate reality and inhibit personal growth.
Evidence
Someone living a life-lie is attempting to manipulate reality with perception, thought and action, so that only some narrowly desired and pre-defined outcome is allowed to exist. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 636
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 636
- XREF: connects to: Suppressing truth hinders personal and social development. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 642; People experiencing cognitive dissonance often avoid or reinterpret contradictory information rather than abandoning their beliefs when confronted with truth. — Festinger’s Law; Choices between truth and ease shape life pathways. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 633 (+4 more)
Library Connections
- Suppressing truth hinders personal and social development.
#corroborates(0.95) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 642 - A deliberately insulated peace can be shattered instantly by a single intrusive truth
#exemplifies(0.85) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 88
Broader Connections
- Choices between truth and ease shape life pathways.
#expands(0.75) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 633 - Instrumentalizing communication has destroyed our sense of truth itself
#expands(0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 378 - Sincerity can be an active ingredient of self-deception rather than its opposite
#corroborates(0.70) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1405