My friend Jeffrey Klein, after reading Robert Trivers’s The Folly of Fools, opines that self-deception is our defining characteristic. It’s much easier to deceive others if we fool ourselves first.
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I think this may be true. Sad to say, it makes me laugh!
I want this on a t-shirt! …or am I just deluded?