Self-deception is a stable life-style punctuated by abrupt awakenings

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

But as Sartre again argues, sincerity might not be opposed to selfdeception but an active feature of it. Men like Frans Carl Valck were not insincere in their belief in the principles of empire and in their condemnations of some of its personnel and practices. But sometimes the contradictions were harder to bear, particularly during those life moments when he at once believed in, lived by, and despised the principles themselves. Valck might better be seen as someone caught in the bind of being as Bakhtin remarked in another context, “a person [who] never coincides with himself.” — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1405 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sincerity can be an active ingredient of self-deception rather than its opposite — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1405; Life-lies manipulate reality and inhibit personal growth. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 636; Choices between truth and ease shape life pathways. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 633 (+8 more)

Related

• Life-lies manipulate reality and inhibit personal growth. (similarity 0.86)
• Sincerity can be an active ingredient of self-deception rather than its opposite (similarity 0.84)
• Recursive strategic deception can erase any determinate truth about intentions. (similarity 0.81)
• Self-deception about our own limits, not deliberate lying, drives overconfidence. (similarity 0.79)
• Self-deception requires precise knowledge of the truth being concealed, not ignorance (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Life-lies manipulate reality and inhibit personal growth. #complicates (0.80) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 636
• Distrust strategies can become autonomous habitual routines #complicates (0.75)
• Sincerity can be an active ingredient of self-deception rather than its opposite #expands (0.70) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1405
• Choices between truth and ease shape life pathways. #exemplifies (0.60) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 633