#155: How to be delusional
If you’re going to live your life based on delusions (and you are, because we all do), then why not at least select a delusion that is helpful?
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
If you’re going to live your life based on delusions (and you are, because we all do), then why not at least select a delusion that is helpful?
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Delusion is what happens when our reason bouncer fails as the gatekeeper to our beliefs—when our imagination is stronger than our judgment. It might be the most universal human quality. And it adds a whole other component to the environment portion of our behavior equation.
Tim Urban • A Story of Stories
Ajinkya Wadhwa added
Since we know that human psychology will always create a subconscious generalized other that has very little to do with objective reality, we’re simply going to make sure your particular set of delusions is consciously chosen, rather than randomly acquired, and helpful, rather than hurtful.
Martha Beck • Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
Andrew Tam added
Why Our Belief Systems Create Misperceptions- Published in The European, Nov 2014
Rivahardtowrite.com
Stuart Evans and added
Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.
Chuck Klosterman • Eating the Dinosaur
is it any more delusional than believing that only your suffering and your pain are authentic? Or that you are alone—that you have no relationship whatsoever with the universe that created you? Or that you have been singled out by destiny as specially cursed?