Deception is so common and follows such well-defined patterns that the patterns can be described. Taken together they are called “mental mechanisms.”
Facing Your Shortcomings and Failures
February 9, 2010
What is your reaction when a friend confides, “I’m going to be very frank. There’s something about you that I wish were not true”? If he has a compliment, you are only too glad to have him say it; you don’t even draw him apart from the crowd to hear it. But how hard it is to have your faults pointed out. We all have a built-in resistance to seeing our shortcomings.
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