People have a strong capacity for self-deception, which greatly impacts how they gauge risk.
Accordingly, deals struck with such regimes are, by their nature, exercises in Western self-deception.
Triumphalism on the basis of an inflated stockmarket and rising corporate and consumer debts would be mere self-deception.
To be fair, Israel's role in this self-deception was, if anything, even greater.
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The past several years have seen an acceleration of this willing self- deception.
What stories are you buying regarding your health, marriage or other relationships, work or finances that are rooted in self-deception?
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To deny this freedom by accepting the stereotypes of others or by treating ourselves as victims of circumstance was self-deception or bad faith.
Self-deception is a facet of ourselves we should always be guarding against.
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Columnist Tony Blankley said it best when he wrote recently that "only self-deception" can justify further sacrifice of our forces in Afghanistan.
In a separate study, female students who take leadership positions on campus score higher on measures of self-deception, based on recent research by Dr. Keating.
At worst the statement is downright cynicism, at best self-serving self-deception.
"I offered several (unconvincing) reasons why it was reasonable to assume that the participants' reports of change were credible and not self-deception or outright lying, " he wrote.
In fact, those who deny it are acting in self-deception.
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Yet Petterson is novelistically acute about human motive and self-deception.
And what forces may be seeking to perpetuate that self-deception?
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But in other respects this becomes a classic undercover story, exploring conflicted personal and professional loyalties, the cost of living a lie, and, paradoxically, the human facility for self-deception.
Most dangerous of all is when followers have no way of knowing if their leaders are telling the truth, or if they are telling an out-and-out lie, or if they are telling a tale distorted by disinformation and self-deception.
For committed meditators, cultivating this wisdom of seeing clearly is at the very heart of the mindfulness meditation practice that trains us to step out from behind the curtain of our restless minds and touch life directly, getting a full, authentic measure of our experience beyond self-deception and impulsiveness.
One even produced a copy of the children's book, "The Emperor's New Clothes", which he read aloud, to emphasise the deception and self-delusion at the company.
The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law.
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