Thursday, July 16, 2015

How People Continually Lie to Themselves...


People rarely understand why they don't like or enjoy something/someone. Most people have a gut feeling that's telling them something, but they don't know what it is, and they're lucky if they even know what it's about. When they do know what it's about, then they start looking for reasons to rationalize their feelings. It's actually pretty interesting when you think about it because it's almost as if people are literally making up reasons to try to solve a puzzle that they themselves made.

Here's an example,

You know somebody that you really don't like. When people ask you why you don't like that person, your response is, "I'm not sure, I guess it's just his (her) attitude."

A lot of people do this. It's quite common. Subconsciously, people try to rationalize their beliefs, even if they themselves don't know why they believe it. People ultimately lie to themselves by finding reasons to hate things that they don't like. 

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