don't deceive yourself

Effectiveness—in politics, and in life—relies, I think, on our ability to meet reality. I wrote this to remind myself of the cost of self-deception, and to commit to the kind of rigorous, unyielding honesty that makes one’s life and work better.

Lie to me if you’d like! I trust you to choose the lie that benefits both of us.

I’m trying to teach myself how to see what I don’t know about myself; to find the failures that my ego tries to ignore.