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SYSK Choice: How to Overcome Self-Deception & The Fascinating Science of Weather

Something You Should Know

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How Do We Deceive Ourself?

We deceive ourselves about absolutely anything and everything that we are uncomfortable acknowledging. Projection is taking an undesirable aspect of ourselves and ascribeing it to some one else, saying, you're like that, but not me. You will take emotional experiences that are really hard for you, and stead of acknowledging them in the context that they're occurring, you will take them out on objects or situations or people that have less power. And so how else are we humans deceiving ourselves and caught up in this whole self deception thing?

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