Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (AGENCY/DISTRIBUTED)

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My self-justifying image about being learned can be the very thing that sometimes keeps me from learning."

According to Oxford Languages, self-deception is the act of allowing oneself to believe that a false feeling, idea, or situation is true.

How we get into the box, how the box shifts our focus and gets in the way of our achievements is explained in part II. Finally in part III we learn how to get out of the box.

The notion that non-conscious deception would be less costly than conscious deception is subject to criticism, citing that a non-conscious lie followed by a process of creating a conscious confabulation would amount to more, not fewer, brain processes than simply making up a conscious lie. [17] It wasn’t me; it was that person’s (or team’s or group’s or division’s) fault,” you say. But who hired them? Your company did. You run the company. Every failure is yours, not theirs. Remember, it’s your company, and everything is your fault—the good as well as the bad. Stop externalizing issues; start internalizing them. You work for them; they do not work for you. You caused it, so 100% own it. - Antonio Garrido, Absolute Sales Development The work of moving from self-deception to fierce acceptance of truth and reality may not be easy, but it’s well worth it. In the process, we’ll start trusting ourselves again and develop our self-acceptance as well as our authenticity. When you try to give constructive criticism when you’re self-deceived, it invites resistance. When you try to give praise when you’re self-deceived, it invites resentment. The concept of self-deception is criticized for being able to classify any criticism of the notion of self-deception as being self-deception in itself, removing its falsifiability and therefore making it unscientific, and also for being an obstacle to science in general by being able to classify anything as self-deception in a way that confirms itself in a way that is not self-correcting. [18] [19]

Appendix: Self-Deception and Cognitive Biases

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