The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.

One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.

At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.

The areas in which we felt most insecure, unsafe, unloved, uncomfortable, embarrassed, angry, and generally unresolved as a child are the areas that we will be most prone to self-deception as an adult.

Usually when I can't see the truth about a thing its because I feel more comfortable with the lie...

We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.